I love a book that can have my heard pounding from the action and wondering what happens next in the story. Unfortunately, I've read too few books lately that have been pulse-pounding. Rebecca York's WITCHING MOON is the exception to the rule.

I could not have put it down if the house had been on fire. Adam Marshall was the head ranger for a refuge in Georgia. The story opened with him coming upon an orgy induced by drug laced smoke. He inhaled some of the smoke and drug which left him the next day with a hangover. You see Adam was especially sensitive to those things. Adam, like his brother Ross from KILLING MOON, was a werewolf. Adam decided the partiers probably had something to do with the former head ranger's death. Dr. Sara Weston was in the Georgia swamp gathering plants for research by a pharmaceutical company. She rented a house that had a legend attached to it, and she was beginning to see visions. She hadn't had those since she was a child.

Adam and Sara met and the sexual tension was evident from the start. Both had a secret they hid from the other. When they figured out they both were in danger, they had to learn to trust each other. And each of their secrets ended up saving the other from certain death. I didn't want Adam and Sara's stories to end because I liked them so much. Rebecca drew two likable, three-dimensional characters. And the book was fast-paced with lots of twists and turns. A must-read for romantic suspense fans.

Reviewed By: Chris Redding
© July 2004