.....various not-really-relevant things to eke the tale out.
I was pleased to find that this book, for which I paid a great deal of money, was one of the larger, thicker, longer books by this author, and I had debated for a while before getting it, after the rather silly Sweet Dreams (see my review, but don't bother with the book!).
There wasn't much of a story to it - the sheriff of a town where ménage-a-3 wolf unions are the norm, JD, comes across Samantha, realises immediately that she is his and his brother Caleb's mate, and then has to convince her of the same. He was basically a caveman, his brother was a touch less of a caveman, and frankly, Samantha was full of herself, full of sass and made up things for the hell of it.
At the first meeting with JD, where admittedly he is a bit of an a**, he cuffs her and takes her over the bonnet of his car - in public. She threatens him with a lawsuit, damages and various other things, then her brain turns to mush and she submits. She does the same with Caleb, and yes, there are 1-on-1 scenes and several ménage scenes, all of which are smoking hot. But Samantha, who has inherited like $500million from an old guy she used to be a companion/nurse to (yeah, right!) is paranoid that her ex-fiance (who she was strangely not surprised to find out was another werewolf) was after her money, but she lied and claimed that she was fleeing a husband and could not be with JD and Caleb til she was divorced. This wasn't really explained as if she was trying to buy time or stand her ground against two cavemen Alphas, but she came across as an attention-grabber, wanting to be the centre of attention all the time.
Much was also made of her investigating the brothers to ensure that they were not fortune-hunters, and much too much was made of how she hated the female investigator Lily (a non-human, very feisty, very opinionated and good at her job, possibly of demonic descent, and in fact, more of a likeable character than the female lead. The book ends with the poss of her getting her own tale...?), too many other characters were suddenly introduced with about a 5th of the book to go, too many convenient incidents happened (several buildings burned down), too much was made about Samantha's obsession with an black-magic-enchanted necklace that she had been given...which made the book seem really contrived and as if the author was struggling to make it interesting with something other than the sex.
Yes, I am glad I read it, but I'm not sure I will buy another Jenny Penn solo-effort, though I have just bought an antho in which she features. Borrow it if you can, but don't bother buying!