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  • Reluctant Mate

  • Cascadia Wolves, Book 1
  • By: Lauren Dane
  • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
  • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (88 ratings)

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Reluctant Mate

By: Lauren Dane
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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Publisher's summary

Previously published under a different title.

"I can't touch you yet. Once I do, it's over."

As daughter of the ruling Pack family, Layla Warden is under pressure to settle down. Find a nice wolf mate from a nice wolf family and have nice wolf babies. Layla has other plans, but when you're a werewolf, biology trumps plans. And when Layla meets Sid, the sex is so intense, so hot, so consuming, it's more than just a connection. It's a mating bond.

Sid Rosario wasn't expecting to find his mate so soon - some wolves never find theirs. Now that he's found Layla, he's never letting her go. But lust and desire alone aren't enough to secure their bond. If they want this incredible happiness to last, there's one more thing they'll have to do....

Watch for more Cascadia Wolves stories coming soon from Lauren Dane and Carina Press!

This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you're looking for with an HEA/HFN. It's a promise!

©2016 Lauren Dane (P)2017 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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great short story

now I need to go find everything as I'm interested in the rest of this series.

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I've read this entire series years ago and loved it so I knew I had to to get the audiobooks when they came out "FINALLY"! This story is so short it's hard to get into the story the way you will with the rest of the series. This book is more of an introduction into the Cascadia world and the history of the Pack. There isn't much meat to this one but I still enjoyed it. As all of these books are, this one was HOT!

The narration was pretty good. Tanya Eby doesn't have the voice for every audiobook, she has a very distinct sound so I was worried if she would fit this series and I was happy to hear that she has a little bit of a different tone in this series and it fit well with these characters!

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a whole lotta of sex

and a little bit of story about two werewolves finding each other and tiger HEA

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series prequel- no insights

I bought this on sale to taste test the series because I didn’t previously own - or remember borrowing- any Lauren Dane books.
It’s the prequel - a snapshot of when Layla met Sid and bonded, but only references other characters. It doesn’t give a heads up on the dynamics of the pack or individuals. You only get the author and narrator ‘voices’. I’d recommend reading the next book to test the series.

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Short and sweet. Smutty.

Three sex scenes in a very short listen. Curious about the rest of the series but we'll see how I feel. Lots TBR to go through. Enjoyed it for what it was. Narrator did well.

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it's a wolf thang

Okay, it is what it is for this genre.
80 minutes to go from insta-lust to insta-mate to insta-love.
3 naughty & detailed scenes (4 if you count the 10 second fade to black wolf on wolf nooky scene)
2 were-men in a MFM scene (what this series calls "tri-bonding")
1 surprisingly well-written novella ending in a HEA

This is an excellent smexy nightcap which convinced me to wishlist book 1. I was surprised by the quality of the dialogue and flow of the story, considering the nooky-focus. Is there cheese? Yes. But it's cheddar, so it's sharp.

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Dull and Rote

This was a prequel of a series. It was short and things moved a bit too fast, especially the “tri-bonding.” Didn’t believe the insta love. It was just A meets B and adds C. Steamy scenes were ok, narration was ok. I won’t be following the series.

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