Four great stories. I bought it for Lora Leigh's Breed Series. Angela Knight is always great. I enjoyed the other two stories. I would read more from these authors.

Angela Knight- Mad Dog Love- The year 2450, a betrayed werewolf captured into slavery is sold to a disguised runaway Empress. The Empress is trying to reach her Rebel Leader cousin who is rightfully the Emperor. The werewolf is trying to escape to rejoin the rebels. Political intrigue, betrayals and heat make this a great Angela Knight story.

Lora Leigh- A Jaguar's Kiss- Part of the Breed series. Divorced teacher gets coveted 1st non-breed teacher position. Jaguar Sebastion escorts her to Sanctuary. He has been watching her for weeks and knows she is his mate. Her verbally abusive cheating ex-husband is used by The Council to kidnap her. Another great, short addition to the Breed series.

Alyssa Day- Shifter's Lady-An Atlantian Priestess journeys to Florida to meet her brother's new wife, a shapeshifting panther. She meets the sister-in-law and SIL's Alpha pridebrother and sparks fly. The Atlantian brother leaves to help locate a fellow soldier. Texas panther plan to overthrow the Alpha and kill the pride to avenge Texas panther's sisters death. His sister was the Alpha's wife, Fallan. She betrayed the Alpha to join the Vampires. The Vampires killed her. Interesting story. I'd like to read the rest of the series.

Virgina Kantra- Sea Crossing- A raped and ruined schoolteacher travels to Canada to escape being Mistress to a Governor of the School who attacked her. Her ship is damaged during a storm. She falls overboard and is rescued by a seal shifter. Seal Shifter wants her to teach pre-shift children.

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I love the authors in their other series. This was a good read. You can tie each story into the other series. Good Adult romance. I am new to Angela Knight, but she is right in line with the other authors. A good read that allows you to see others sides to minor characters from other series.

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The fun thing about these short story anthologies is that they (like life) are a lot like a box of chocolates on sale after Valentine’s Day, except that just to make it interesting, someone has taken the sheet that explains what all of the chocolate flavors and centers are, leaving you to just kind of grab one and guess. If the chocolate is one of the dark chocolate covered peanut butter ones, it’s great and you’re in good shape! If it’s say, one of those weird apricot ones, well, at least it’s over quickly.

Such is definitely the case with Shifter. The first story, “Mad Dog Love” by Angela Knight, toes the line between quirky but fun paranormal romance and weird apricot chocolate territory. It’s the story of enslaved werewolf Rance Conlan and empress of the future Zarifa Lorezo and their adventures finding her outlaw brother. Anyone who’s ever read her Mageverse series knows that Angela Knight definitely isn’t afraid to take ideas that don’t seem to have anything to do with each other, like Arthurian legends and vampires or, in this case, werewolves and space, and jam them together until somehow, a story emerges. A story does emerge here, but it’s not a life-changing one by any stretch.

The second offering, Lora Leigh’s “A Jaguar’s Kiss,” is definitely more interesting. A short entry in her Breeds series, this is the story of Natalie Ricci (a human) and Saban Broussard (a laboratory experiment where human and jaguar DNA were combined to create a supersoldier…or something…) and it not only does well as a stand-alone story, it also got me interested in reading more of the Breed series.

Up next is “Shifter’s Lady” by Alyssa Day, which is part of the Warriors of Poseidon series. I’ve read the first two (I think) books in the series, and honestly I’m no closer to deciding whether I like them or not than I was before reading this. Ethan is a panther shifter trying to solve a rash of assaults and murders; Marie is the First Maiden of the Nereids who hasn’t ever left Atlantis until now. There wasn’t anything inherently wrong with the story that developed from this premise; I was just left feeling kind of disinterested in what happened to Ethan, Marie, any other characters from the series, or the world that they all share.

Of the four authors included here, Virginia Kantra was the only one I hadn’t come across before reading, and her “Sea Crossing” was, in my opinion, the most innovative story of the four. The beginning of the story reads like your standard Regency romance—young woman is ruined by her youthful indiscretions and is setting off to start a new life away from the society that wants nothing to do with her. While en route, she’s shipwrecked, rescued by a mysterious stranger, and brought to a strange town of sorts to recover. So far, so good, right? Except the town is populated by selkies, people who can turn into seals, and her ship was wrecked on purpose so the seal/people children could have a teacher. Griff, the hero of the story, has to figure out how to explain all this to Emma, the heroine, without it sounding as crazy as all that. It’s definitely a unique premise and it worked for me.

Reviewing anthologies is tough because each story has to rely on the other ones for cohesiveness, and one clunker can definitely offset the enjoyment of the others. Shifter isn’t a perfect story collection by any stretch, but the selection of authors represented and the diversity of the stories work well together, and although some of the stories weren’t my cup of tea they’re a good, cheap way to discover new authors without having to sit through a full-length novel.

Good book - well constructed short stories

Another good story by Lora Leigh. First time read on other authors.

there are several short stories in this book and I found it to be a good read.

Ok. I am a fan of the paranormal romances, especially vampires and werewolves but this was too out there for me. Now, I am not an avid paranormal romance reader, so men who turn into seals might work for you but not for me. They seemed like decent stories for the multi-story book. But I think I will stick with vamps and were's from now on.

Four good stories.

Four amazing erotica authors, four incredible paranormal romance novellas, one HOT book!

I did not like this book very much. Only story that was any good was Shifters Lady and that ended abruptly. Couldn't read Jaguars Kiss way too erotic for me-every other line was erotic.

15TH IN THE LORA LEIGH BREED SERIES

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