A race to save his lover—by becoming his own worst nightmare.
Dr. Nick Sewell has it all. Good friends, a career as a Cambridge academic… and recently, a tendency to turn into a wolf every full moon. When a new student arrives from Germany, Nick is horrified by his visceral attraction to the troubled youth—not to mention his violent jealousy when he sees Julian with another man. He’s floored to find out Julian is a werewolf too.
Unlike Nick, Julian has spent his life among other wolves, and in this subject, he’s the teacher and Nick the student. Nick struggles to adjust to this reversal of roles, especially since he’s an alpha and Julian a natural submissive. That dynamic just adds to the attraction smoldering between them, whether they’re in human form or wolf.
But Julian’s pack and the abuse he suffered aren’t far behind him. And the pack wants to reclaim him. For Nick to hold on to his lover, he’ll have to come to terms with the violent acts of his past—and embrace the monster within.
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Second Edition
First Edition published by Samhain Publishing Ltd., May 2011.
Cat gives this one 3 Meows with a 3 Purr heat index...
Camwolf is the sequel to Lonewolf. it is Nick's story and can be read as a stand-alone. I didn't read the first and this worked fine as far as backstory.
Nick is a professor at Cambridge. He is attracted to a young first-year student, Julian but he doesn't do relationships since becoming a werewolf. Things bring the two together but will the relationship work. Julian is attracted to Nick but is leary of Alpha's. But he needs an alpha's protection and sees that Nick is a good person unlike what he dealt with in the past, but will his past catch up with him?
This book had such a good premise. I love May/December stories especially large age gaps and a good werewolf or shifter book. The May/ December is here and I liked that Nick had to fight for Julian's attention and Julian had to fight to keep Nick. It is not n easy romance. The shifter part is good as well. I like that Nick is having to learn on his own but would have liked more of Julian teaching him.
One thing I didn't like was this book had so many POVs. It felt like each character and there were quite a few got their POV. especially Tiffany, Julians best friend and the antagonist had a lot fo POV and I found it jarring. But if you like a good shifter, A sexy May/December, and multiple POVs this is for you.
Excerpt...
DR. NICK Sewell sat in the comfortingly dingy atmosphere of the Ship in Silver Street, Cambridge, and tried not to stare too obviously at the pretty young man at the other end of the large, wooden table. Julian Lauder was all translucent skin and silken hair falling oh-so casually over the collar of his expensive leather jacket. A student, of course, which added a nice touch of seediness to Nick’s hopeless, pathetic crush. At least he wasn’t one of Nick’s own students—Nick could feel a cold sweat breaking out at the very thought. Julian was reading English, not history. God, if Nick had had to supervise him… it was bad enough as it was, seeing him practically every day, striding through Main Court on his way to Hall or loitering in the Porter’s Lodge with his friends as they checked for post and talked about whatever students talked about these days.Nick gave a wry smile. It was barely a decade since he’d been an undergraduate, but already they seemed a different species to him. This new generation had a sophistication his had aped in vain and an ease with matters sexual he’d have given his right arm for at a similar age. And they were all so damned good-looking.
Not that it had been a problem for him before. Not until Julian Lauder had sauntered into college with his blond hair and his cashmere sweaters and his cut-glass accent. All Saints’ was a small college, not one favored by the major public schools, and Julian’s way of speaking stood out there, where at John’s, or Magdalene, it might have been lost in a sea of similar accents. Although actually, Nick mused, that wasn’t entirely true. Julian’s voice might be confident, even arrogant, but it had none of the braying quality that was all too evident in the average Old Etonian. Julian’s voice was clear, musical, and…. And God, Nick sounded like a lovesick schoolgirl. A man his age, making himself ridiculous over a student who, despite showing an interest in some of the male undergraduates, wouldn’t look twice at a dusty old fellow.
It was all hopeless, in any case. There was a reason Nick hadn’t had a relationship in three years, and that reason wasn’t going to go away. Ever.
He sighed and tried to tune back into the conversation. They were a motley crowd, the University German Society, and they met there every Wednesday at eight o’clock simply to chat in German. Nick had been a member in his undergraduate days and had popped his head in once or twice since becoming a fellow. Not so much, of late. He was quite aware that he was only there that evening due to having heard a third-year calling to Julian, “See you at the Stammtisch—mach’s gut!” as he walked into college in the afternoon.
Hi, I’m JL (Jamie) Merrow. I’m that rare beast; an English person who refuses to drink tea. I’m a writer of (mainly) m/m or f/f romance, mostly contemporary or paranormal, but with a fickle muse that occasionally ambushes me in dark alleyways and drags me off, cackling, to write historical or science fiction. Some might call all this pillar-to-posting tragic evidence of a short attention span; I couldn’t possibly….er, what were we talking about, again? ;)
I'm a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, International Thriller Writers, Verulam Writers’ Circle and the UK GLBTQ Fiction Meet organising team.
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