I have read the whole series multiple times (there is nothing like reading a strong female character when you are feeling low!) and I am really looking forward to 'Frost Burned' due out in 2013. There are none of the 'seedy, ridiculous sexual encounters' (thanks to Leslie Sims of Denver for that little snippet) that are so common in other supposedly UF stories (read 'the label says UF, and there are a few weird characters in there, but it is mostly about the sexual encounters). I like a good love scene as well as anyone else, but I am MUCH more interested in the story. As time goes along, you can see a romance coming on, but like Kate, Mercy's story is about the story, not about the smex. She doesn't whine, cry, piss, moan, or otherwise turn into a whiny little boy-toy. Next to Kate Daniels (Ilona Andrews 'Kate Daniels' series) Mercy is one of the best realized female UF lead characters on the market today. A Volkswagen mechanic named Mercedes) takes in a new, young, isolated werewolf, her life takes a new, and dangerous turn, leading her back into a life she thought she had left far behind. When Mercedes, or Mercy as she is called (yep. What develops is one of the more well developed series in UF. A pretty good feat for a woman who shifts into a coyote. Well, she WAS raised by werewolves herself, by the Maraq, in fact, the leader of all the werewolves in the US. Oh, yea, and tormenting the werewolf in her back yard. She is more interested in keeping her Volkswagen repair shop running, paying her bills, and living a quiet life in her 70's model trailer with her Manx cat. First off, she never intended to be a heroine. Mercy is not your typical female heroine.

Moon called by patricia briggs