I have to lead in with one of the hottest, most possessive sexy quotes I've ever read:"Beg me, Jaime. Beg me and I'll fuck you as hard as you want."She stopped writhing. "As hard as I want?" she echoed, suddenly not so averse to the idea. No matter how many times she told him she could take his roughness, he always held back a little..."I'll fuck you so hard you'll think I hate you. Beg me, Jaime..."Suzanne Wright is a great author to go to if you love strong willed heroines that don't take crap from their men. Jaime had me worried for a minute at the beginning of this book, as she was following Dante around like a puppy and acting way too submissive and desperate for my tastes. But rest assured, while she doesn't quite have Taryn beat for in-your-face attitude, she most assuredly holds her own.MY SYNOPSIS:Jaime has loved Dante since she was a kid...the chubby little annoyance for he and his friends. Now that she joined the Phoenix Pack, she once again sees him every day, and her admiration is just as strong as ever. And Jaime's wolf has nothing but tragedy and fear in her past. Even Jaime fears her own wolf, to the extent that she can't even allow herself to shift, in fear that her wolf will see everyone as a threat...even Dante.As another obstacle, Dante's first love is his role as Beta of the pack, and it leaves no time for anything more than a quick shag. He knows of Jaime's crush, and being the good guy he is, would never take advantage of her like that. He takes his pleasure elsewhere. Now, one of those one nighters has decided to claim Dante as her own, and as her MATE, no less! Everyone knows that her claim is false, but it's just another stress that Dante doesn't need, especially with the pack hierarchies and alliances still fairly new. When Jaime finally gives up on Dante and tries to enter the dating pool, Dante's intense jealousy makes him wonder if there is more to the little she-wolf than he originally thought. Because once he sees her as a woman, he can't stop the rage he feels when he sees her with another male...the intensity of his feelings overpowers everything else. And his wolf is pissed! He wants the she wolf...What's a guy to do? His role as beta must come first, and he knows that he could never truly commit to a female in fear of her resenting his responsibilities. MY THOUGHTS:This one didn't pack quite the punch that Feral Sins did, but there's not many females that can top Taryn's overpowering attitude. Jaime held her own, though, and proved to everyone that she's more than a background character. I'm an animal lover myself, so I latched on to the fact that she works at an animal rescue shelter...it shows an ability to empathize, a love of animals. Jaime has empathy in spades, and it takes awhile, but I love how steadfast in her devotion to Dante she was. She knows that they belong together...My Dante...(I see all dark headed male wolves as Joe Manganiello, tee hee!) Dante...WHEW! Another amazing dominant male who won't give up until he has what he wants. That intense kind of passion that he shows is exactly what I like to read...although, I must say, this guy is uber persistent! "Trey looked at him curiously. "She matters to you, doesn't she?"Mattered to him? Dante wouldn't say she mattered to him. Yeah, okay, she mattered to him."Poor, confused Dante...he fights it so hard, but he just can't get away from the fact that this little submissive wolf comes to mean so much!"Look at me Jaime. Look at me." Finally, she did. "I want this. I'm keeping you. If you think you have a choice, that's not my problem..."The sex is smoking hot, of course...Wright excels at writing intense love scenes, helped along by the fact that she can't seem to write a truly submissive character. There's something so powerful about two people who are forced into finding out how to hand over control...both of their hearts and in the bedroom! I'm ending with some funnies, because this is such a quotable book!While Dante is interrogating an attacker:Name." It was a demand this time, not a question.Sweat was beading the captive's forehead and greasing his hair."Fuck you.""Good name, I like it. Easy to remember. Mind if I call you fuck for short?"Taryn, while giving birth:"Cut it out of me!" Presumably Taryn was totally ignored, because she growled, "Fine. Give me a knife, I'll do it!"A nice tidbit of standoffish behavior from Jaime:""Know this too: if you ever get an idea like that again, I'll know, baby, and I;ll spank you as so damn hard there'll be a permanent handprint right there." She gave him a cheeky smile. "As long as you understand there'll be a matching one on your face."And...one last funny from the ever flirtatious Dominic:""How many times do I have to tell you to stop using those lines on my mate?"Dominic placed his hand over his heart. "I try, I really do, but my love for her is like diarrhea - I just can't hold it in."
 - Suzanne Wright)
