Cowboy Wolf Outlaw

intriguing and entertaining

COWBOY WOLF OUTLAW is the sixth and final instalment in Kait Ballenger’s contemporary, adult SEVEN RANGE SHIFTERS paranormal romance series. This is Grey Wolf assassin Malcolm Grey, and witch / bartender Trixie Beuregard’s story line. COWBOY WOLF OUTLAW can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty but for backstory I recommend reading the series in order as there is an ongoing premise throughout. The SEVEN RANGE SHIFTERS series is a spin off from the author’s Execution Underground series.

SOME BACKGROUND: A group of cannibalistic shifters known as the Volk were forging ahead to take over the territory once used by the Seven Range Shifters. Reluctantly partnering with the Volk, the vampires are taking aim at the shifters, destroying anyone who get in their way.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Malcolm and Trixie) COWBOY WOLF OUTLAW follows the building relationship between Grey Wolf assassin Malcolm Grey, and witch / bartender Trixie Beauregard. Malcolm had lost his previous mate Bo to the Execution Underground, and struggled for months with the grief of his loss, choosing to drink away his pain at the Midnight Coyote Saloon, served by the woman that stirs at his heart but Trixie Beauregard is much more than human, and a woman who is struggling with her own demons from the past. When Trixie overhears plans to take down the Grey Wolf Pack, our heroine is pulled into a spiral from which she can never return but Trixie must take refuge with the Grey Wolf Pack, a pack that will see betrayal at the hands of our story line heroine. What ensues is the building relationship between Malcolm and Trixie, and the potential fall-out as Trixie becomes payment for a debt owed, a debt Malcolm is willing to take on his own.

The relationship between Trixie and Malcolm is a frenemies to lovers relationship in which Malcolm struggles with the loss of his mate. Trixie knows the pain of betrayal, of loss, of secrets and lies, and in this, tries to seduce our hero into something more. Malcolm never expected to find himself falling for our story line heroine but his fall threatens the pack that he was learning to call his own. The $ex scenes are passionate and intense but I dislike the use of a certain four-letter word in my ‘romance’ story line.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, supernatural secondary and supporting characters including Wes (Cowboy Wolf Trouble), Colt Cavanaugh (Cowboy in Wolf’s Clothing), Packmaster Maverick (Fierce Cowboy Wolf), Blaze and Dakota (Wild Cowboy Wolf); Warlock ‘Boss’; former waitress Dani, vampires Alaric, Corbin, and Cillian; Detroit Rock City MC shifters Dom, Reaper and Rigs. The requisite evil has many faces.

COWBOY WOLF OUTLAW is a story of betrayal, secrets, lies and forgiveness. The fast paced premise is intriguing and entertaining; the romance is impassioned and fated; the characters are broken, struggling, powerful and healing.