Elizabeth's Wolf is another winner from Lora Leigh. This book has the longest length so far (that I've read) out of all her Ellora's Cave published Breed books, so we get excellent story telling plus all the hot, naughty, nekkid sex Lora Leigh could throw at us. This book was smoking hot and Dash was delicious! I really liked Elizabeth too and all the cute glimpses I got with Cassie in Kiss of Heat, I got even more of in Elizabeth's Wolf.

Dash was a really take charge kind of man and only in a romance novel can a man walk into this kind of situation and just take over and get away with it. Much less be thought of as hot and sexy. His concern and immediately connection with Cassie was soooo adorable as was his concern and all consuming lust for Elizabeth. I hope this doesn't come across as sick, but I actually really liked Cassie and Dash's father/daughter relationship more than Dash and Elizabeth's slightly combative, lover relationship. Dash and Elizabeth were absolutely scorching together but whenever Cassie was around, I just found her to be so adorable and an absolute scene stealer. Manipulative and sweet and achingly trusting. She was the type of little girl you want to gather up in your arms and never let go. I would have fed her all the bits of chocolate I could have just to keep a smile on her face. Cassie has got a serious chocolate fetish and I can't wait for her to grow up and read about what kind of woman she's going to be.

This one really expounded on the greed of people and what lengths the Council will go to to get their hands on the Breed children born outside the labs. The man hunting Elizabeth and Cassie was really disgusting and I thought his end was not nearly painful enough. Call me bloodthirsty but I wanted gory, screaming torture.

The ending seemed a little rush to me. I felt Lora Leigh could have weighed out the middle and the end better but all in all, I loved it. Dash was absolutely adorable and I loved his need-no-one attitude. When all his friends came out of the woodwork to come to his aid, I thought it was sooooo sweet. This was really the most "awwww" worthy of the Breed books and I just loved everything about it. It was so achingly sweet and I loved how the Breed community came together and rallied around Cassie. While it was sexy and steamy as only Lora leigh can write, I really enjoyed the sense of family this book had. I highly recommend Elizabeth's Wolf as another excellent addition to the Breeds series. Enjoy!

Lora Leigh has outdone herself with this sexy and ever so erotic series. Every book is more exciting than first. I LOVE IT!!!

This book is part of the Wolf Breed series which is an offshoot of the Feline Breeds series. The Genetics Council used genetic experimentation to create humans with animal DNA, called Breeds. The Breeds were tortured, experimented upon and kept in captivity, but eventually escaped. The Council and other groups are trying to capture and/or kill them.

Dash is part wolf. He has spent twelve years in the army and Special Forces. Cassie selects his name as part of a school project to write letters to men in the services. They become pen pals. When he realizes that Cassie and her mother Elizabeth are in danger and living on the run, he takes a leave from the service to help them.

I recently read Death Angel by Linda Howard. It gave an excellent description of how Drea was on the run from bad guys. The author described many smart things that she did to survive, and many smart things that Simon did to find her. In Wolf Breeds, Elizabeth has been on the run for two years from bad guys. Dash has been searching for her for six months because he wants to help. The author doesn't tell me how the bad guys keep finding her or how Dash found her. I would have liked that, but I realize this is supposed to be more about erotic sex than a typical romantic suspense novel. However, I think it would have been easy to add a little more plot development and take away some of the "ponderings in the mind about what to do" that Elizabeth does early in the story and Dash does later in the story.

The first part of the story was better than the last part. The first part was meeting, finding, protecting, being on the run and developing a relationship. The last part was preparing and planning to get the bad guy.

There were fewer sex scenes than I expected, but they lasted several pages. There was a thread of anger or roughness to them. Since he is a Breed, Dash has a couple of physical differences from human males that occur during sex.

CAUTION SPOILER:
I was surprised and enjoyed Dash borrowing a military Hummer with night vision to travel with Elizabeth during a snow storm.

Sexual language: strong/erotic. Number of sex scenes six, some several pages long. Setting: current day U.S. Copyright 2004. Genre: erotic paranormal romance.

For a listing of my reviews of other Lora Leigh books, see my 4 star review of "Tempting the Beast" posted on 6/30/08.

It's a beautifully written book cassie & elizabeth pull at your heart strings and you will pull for dash to win them. It's hot and steamy and WOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!! Lora Leigh at her Best.

I am a sucker for the breeds series but particularly if it involves a child. All my protectiveness comes out as does Wolfe's. This is a man who as tries not to make friends. He considers himself a loner little does he know that all those acts of kindness has not gone unnoticed. He will need all those friends and allies to save Elizabeth and her daughter from the experimentation of the evil genetics' council. They are the ones that think of breeds as not human but animals. It was another great read. This story is a continuation of the breed series. Everyone has a preconceived notion of the coyote breeds, they are the merciless hunters used by the genetics council. This is not the case with Kiowa. He has been asked to keep an eye on the president's daughter. He is certainly unsuspecting that this is his mate. What follows is fast paced and riveting, as he tries to keep her safe from those who would kidnap her. Yes, anything that would keep a bill from passing that makes the breeds responsible for their own future.

This book by far is my most favorite book I have ever read in my life. I love this book and the characters are to die for. Lora is the best!

Don't we all wish we had our own personal hero.
I have just started reading Lora Leighs books and I am buying them as fast as I can. Her stories are different and very fascinating. Being an older woman (64)I don't need all the erotica but will accept it just to read the story. I can't wait for the next one. don't care what breed it's about.P>S> Am so happy she let us know what little Cassie's fairy was.
NEVER TOO OLD TO DREAM

Don't we all wish we had our own personal hero.
I have just started reading Lora Leighs books and I am buying them as fast as I can. Her stories are different and very fascinating. Being an older woman (64)I don't need all the erotica but will accept it just to read the story. I can't wait for the next one. don't care what breed it's about.P>S> Am so happy she let us know what little Cassie's fairy was.
NEVER TOO OLD TO DREAM

I loved this book, the passion, the love and the thrill factor is not too shabby either. This book is one of the breed series but I much prefer the wolf breeds to any of the others. The chemistry is strong between the leads and the story is fast paced. Some of the people who wrote reviews were speaking about it being unrealistic sometimes but hay this is why we read these books anyway, to get away from reality for a little bit :) You would enjoy this book for sure if you are looking for a hot steamy romance with something extra.

Should really be called. Elizabeth's Coyote. The most outrageous Breed plot yet. Although this is one of Lora's earlier Ellora's Cave books.

I'll start with the spoiler. The daughter Cassie turns out to be a Breed child. One of the evil coyote Breeds. And she knows it. So she makes endless efforts to be good. Poor kid. Only 8 yo. She'll have a breakdown for sure when she gets to her teens. Probably. She's been keeping a lot of secrets from her mother. I could have done without evil adults calling sweet damaged Cassie a 'monster' to her face too. Also. Readers need to ask themselves. What on earth is an 8 yo doing in a piece of erotica? Strictly speaking. This novel is more about her than about Dash and Elizabeth.

Amazingly. The smut totally gets in the way of the excellent plot that surrounds Cassie. Despite what she repeatedly says. Elizabeth entrusts the care of her hunted child to acquaintances of a man she has known for about 1 day. I understand completely that the demands of the plot made that a necessity. Not least because she and Dash could hardly consumate their relationship in the usual noisy Breed manner with an 8 yo around in the next room. But it just meant there was a huge discontinuity between her intentions and her actions.

The novel ends rather abruptly. Like many of the books. In addition the author seemed to have to struggle to fit in the required anal scene. Ok. The heroine faints from the resulting ecstacy. But there should have been at least one more bedroom scene just to show that she felt happy in the relationship following that weird event.

I bought Elizabeth's Wolf as a $15 paperback. From the smut point of view. I don't think it was worth it. Not enough. Because understandably it can't really get going until Cassie is off-loaded at around page 170. From a 'good story' point of view the price was not a problem. On one level I suppose you could call this book 'good edgy fiction.' But I found it a bit too scary to enjoy as a novel. Obviously I guessed quite early on that Cassie was Breed. It's just that the details, and especially the ending were just too sad for me to cope with comfortably.

The prologue was fabulous.

After Dash chases down Elizabeth and Cassie, it became sex laden almost every other page, which is why I hate romance books with kids already.
Dash was written as someone who loved Cassie, and who made him live again, yet, once he saw Elizabeth, all he could think about was getting into Elizabeth's pants, and once he got her pregnant, it was like Cassie took a back burner.

I think it was too convenient about Cassie having to be taken to Sanctuary. It just gave an excuse for Dash and Liz to get it on without a kid hindering them. Why bother writing about a woman with a kid, then?


Elizabeth's almost mortally wounded, and Cassie comes in to see her, and then Dash rushes her out. WTF.


I love the feline breeds, and I thought this would be a great Breed book, but I just can't say I liked it.

This is the best Breed book she's written and I've read and liked all of them. The book is dark & suspenseful but totally romantic at the same time. I loved Dash's character: He manages to be totally Alpha while at the same time unapologetically wearing his heart on his sleeve for his mate & her little girl.

You will also love Elizabeth; I found her character very believable. I liked the fact that she didn't just falling unquestionably for this stranger, hunk though he was, at first sight. Instead she made him work for her trust.

For those of you who have read the other Breed stories, you will really enjoy visiting Callan & the gang and their interaction w/ Dash & his new family. She is so good at weaving the past characters into the present.

Don't miss this one, especially if you have started w/her new Breed series; this will give you a bite of the history of how it all began.

I consider myself an experienced reader and am not so easily wowed by a 'nice story'. However, this was very enjoyable, and I finished it in a day! It's got romance, erotica, adventure and more. I'd recommend it to anyone (except perhaps my mother....).

Lora Leigh has done it again in the breed series. What makes this one stand out from the rest is the entire set up of the story. It doesn't consist of love growing from lust, but love growing from protectiveness, responsibility, and respect.
Dash, is a true hero. He puts himself in harm's way in service to his country and the men he fights beside. Living the life of a career military man, Dash is severely injured and ready to give up until he receives a letter from a little girl living her own life of danger. Dash soon finds a not only a reason to live, but a reason to love.
Elizabeth and her daughter are on the run. Mother and child seek to evade those who would exploit them in their cruel desire for power. Using natural instincts and a all her strength, Elizabeth has managed to protect Cassie, but she is running out of time. She needs a hero.
Ms.Leigh has again mixed a great story line with hot characters and even hotter sex. Meow!

Don't hesitate, just put it in your cart! She just gets better and better. Her characters are terrific and the romance wasn't written in her sleep. She was "in her zone".

I bought this book because a lot of the customer reviews gave it five stars. Since many of Lora Leigh's books were given five stars, I really didn't expect this one to be much better than those. I bought her first three Feline Breeds because of the customer ratings and I have to say that I wasn't too happy with the cost I paid relative to the products in those cases.

However, I would have paid quite a bit more for this particular book. In fact, this book made my purchase of the first three well worth it. The tie in to her earlier works was fantabulous--although I agree that this book is a stand-alone product.

Every love scene (notice I said love scene, not sex scene) in Dash and Elizabeth's story sold you more and more on the romance between the two main characters. I love the way they loved and the way they played. I love that her characters both wanted to be in love, chose to be in love, and made no excuses for doing so (it was great not having to read another arduous battle of one character fighting the attraction and pull of another character's call to her soul). It was mature-fun, care-free crazy, and deeply appealing to every romantic tendency in my extremely pragmatic bones. It was plain wonderful.

This story was so good that it didn't even matter that Dash and Elizabeth had known each other a short time. It is--I must admit--unrealistic to do so via letters from a child, but that's okay. For the rest of the story alone I chose to suspend my disbelief. I was so tired of the overdone sex in the first three Feline Breeds books; but, I am so glad I hung in there long enough to realize the depth of talent Lora Leigh truly possesses. This was such a great book!

I know everyone isn't blessed with the level of talent this woman displays (i.e., marrying the sensual with contemporary science fiction), but I hope other authors are sitting at her feet taking notes on how to do it.

This is really a great piece of fiction. I wasn't sure I'd like it with the animal/breed theme but the storyline revolving around a little girl who becomes pen pals with a lonely soldier sounded interesting. You couldn't help but care about the leading male character Dash, who felt isolated and despondent until Cassie's letters gave him a will to live as he vowed to protect her and her mother Elizabeth. The chemistry between Dash & Elizabeth was amazing and I was really impressed with Elizabeth as the heroine. Following them as they flee the bad guys and inevitably discover the truth about Cassie and each other, Dash & Elizabeth become a couple worth rooting for.

This book was so well written I could easily see it becoming a movie. Even though it did have some good romance & erotic scenes, the story as a WHOLE is what makes "Elizabeth's Wolf" a MUST READ. If you like well-developed characters, romance, and an all-around excellent plot, this book is for you.

The Breed books are all incredibly good, but so far Elizabeth's Wolfe is at the top of the list. The book can be read alone or fits in with the series of Breed books. I can recommend anything Lora Leigh has written. Talented, talented writer and storyteller.

I have read all the breed series (feline,wolf, and Coyote) they were great books. I hope that she continues to create erotica books because she is one of the few that books actually have a story line. I have not read all her books but I do plan on it.

I read this book and really enjoyed it. Lora really pulled this story together answering any questions and keeping me interested, wanting to know every detail.

Good stuff!

Leigh may be my newest favorite erotic author. Her story lines are well written and original. She incorporates thought out emotions and has wonderful character exploration. The situations are believable, and she can make you cry or moan with her characters. I highly recommend his book if you're interested in finding a new author to read.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I EVER READ A LORA LEIGH BOOK. LET ME TELL YOU IT WAS GREAT. I READ IT IN LESS THAN A DAY THATS HOW GOOD AND HOT IT IS.

THE SEX IS GREAT AND WILL LEAVE YOU WANTING TO HAVE YOUR OWN PARTY.

MUST READ FOR THOSE WHO LIKE EROTICA. I EVEN LIKED THE ANIMAL ASPECTS OF THE "WOLF" CHARACTERS.

A MUST READ.

Put some plot in there along with all the hot stuff and you've got a really great book to curl up on the couch with. That's what you'll get when you pick up "Elizabeth's Wolf", book three in her Breed series. Since we're reading erotica here, know that the love scenes are up front and personal to say the least. If explicit details turn you off, don't open this one. If the thought of that makes you smile, by all means, pick it up and read on because Lora Leigh NEVER disappoints in that area.

Dash Sinclair (What a name - kind of debonaire, not what I'd have picked for the lead man) is a hardened soldier that has been wounded in combat. While in a coma, his superior reads letters penned to him by a little girl named Cassie. She tells Dash about herself, her pretty momma, Elizabeth and all the hardships in their lives. Through the haze of the coma, Dash can hear the anguish in Cassie's letters and soon begins to dream about her and Elizabeth, who is actually fighting to keep her and her daughter alive. When Dash comes out of his coma, he wastes no time in finding Cassie and Elizabeth and taking them under his protective wing. What Cassie and Elizabeth don't realize (and no one else he's come to know) is that Dash is one of the Breeds that have now been exposed to the world. He is a wolf Breed and very few of them have come forward with their secrets, choosing instead to trust no one.

Elizabeth and Cassie are on the run, fighting to stay one step ahead of some evil perps that want Cassie. Just when they can take it no longer, when the tough just can't go any further, in walks larger-than-life Dash. Somehow Cassie knows this is the man that's come to save them, while Elizabeth has trouble trusting him at first. All too soon, though, it becomes obvious to her and Dash that they have an attraction to one another that will not be denied. They team up after placing Cassie in a safe house and go after the bad guys together, along with many friends that Dash never expected to have.

Dash is undeniably sexy to say the least. Whew! Any woman would be lucky to have him panting after her. However, his alpha male attitude was a little overdone in some areas. I applauded Elizabeth for standing up to him, but her spunky attitude still wasn't enough to put Dash in place like it should have. I wanted their relationship to be more equal. After all, Elizabeth was on the run for a long time, keeping not only herself, but her small daughter alive as well. She made huge sacrifices, often foregoing any food so her daughter could eat. That is not the stuff of a heroine with no backbone, which is the way it seemed sometimes when they got together.

The only other obvious area this book is lacking in is the environment, the scenery in it. You are depending solely on interactions between characters to get a feel for this book. There is no interaction between the characters and the environment they are in, no rich descriptions of the areas surrounding them. If the characters hadn't been so vivid, this could have put the book in jeopardy.

All in all, another satisfying read from Lora Leigh's Breed series. So far, they seem to work out of order as well. I almost never read a series in order, and not having read the second book yet, I had no problem following Dash and Elizabeth's story. We do get a revisit from some of the characters in the first two books ( "Tempting the Beast" and "The Man Within" ), but they contributed well to the story instead of taking away from it. Lora Leigh has penned a series where animal instincts and traits mesh extremely well with the humans that posess them. If you've never read her Breed series, do so. You won't be disappointed.

I was recommended Lora Leigh by writer Kate Angell. She knows how I like powerful stories that grab the reader and won't let them go. I have three of the "Breed books" and am naturally reading them out of order, typical for me. Still, that is often a good lit test to see if the book is really stand alone. Though this is fourth in the Breed Series, this one truly stands alone well. The Feline books that I have read are super, but Lora Leigh is at TOP FORM with Elizbeth's Wolf. At points in the feline books, while I am really enjoying them, the romance is eschewed in favor of breed matings. While it's powerful writing, it loses the true romance in favor of animal traits. However, with Elizabeth's Wolf, the power of the romance is dead on target. This is Lora Leigh at sheer perfection. She is so concentrated, so in tune with her characters, on the power of a predator finding and protecting his mate.

In this case the "scent" comes through letters from a little girl to a soldier, Dash Sinclair, who has been injured. No one sends letters to Dash. He is truly a lone wolf, a man genetically engineered with wolf in is coding. Unlike the feline breeds, whose traits are more obvious, his wolf breed traits are recessive. As a man born in a test tube, he is so utterly alone. When he is injured, his sight nearly taken from him, his commander sees Dash needs a lifeline, and offers it when letters from Cassie comes in. She has picked his name off a list of soldiers who didn't get mail and began writing Dash. As his commanders reads the letters, Dash begins to think of Cassie and her mother Elizabeth as his.

It's clear to Dash almost immediately, there's problems in Cassie's life with her mother. Her mother is sad and scared. Quickly, Dash needs the letters, needs the woman and child. He arranges presents for Cassie of the year of receiving letters. As he is checking out of the hospital, he learns Cassie and her mother Elizabeth have been killed in an explosion that destroyed the apartment where they were living. So the wolf goes on the hunt to kill the people responsible. He soon gets a letter from Cassie. They escaped, she has another name and her mother and she are on the run for their lives once again. So the hunt switches for Dash, a race to find the child and mother and claim them before the men hunting them catch up kill Elizabeth and take the child. We guess the reason early on (especially so if you have read the other books), but it's not the plot that pulls you. It's the power of Dash's need to protect the woman he now claims and her child.

Lora Leigh is SO POWERFUL with this story. It alone marks her as a talent to watch. This story is just so emotional, so vivid that you won't be able to put it down. Few writers reach this level of craft. So if you haven't read Lora Leigh, this is the one to start with.

Elizabeth's Wolf is about a courageously brave woman who risks everything to save her young daughter from an evil man who wants to use her for his own gain. On the way, Elizabeth's daughter Cassie befriends a lone soldier whose background is shrouded in mystery. It is through that development that really culminates how the story meets with a very wonderful and satisfying ending.

It contains vivid details about a mother's love, strength and her all empowering willingness to never give up for the sake of her daughter. This also brings about a very emotionally charged relationship between the soldier, Dash (an absolute alpha man who protects what's his) and Elizabeth. As the story unfolds, we witness how their love for one another blossoms. I loved everything about this story. Not only does it contain hot passionate sex, it also has great main, second and third characters. This story also taught me the importance of valuing a soldier's commitment to fight for his country and protect those weaker than he. At the same time I realize that soldiers sacrifice a lot to do what they do and I've learned to better appreciate them. This is in essence a breed/ wolf story and I loved the little clues about other breeds. It keeps getting better and better. This is an absolutely outstanding book that cannot be missed.

I really enjoyed this breed book because it was a lone wolf story about a man with more friends than he realized. It was also a story about love and acceptance and families. Finally, the love story was typical Lora Leigh; hot sex and emotional love. Dash is a hero for our times and Elizabeth is a woman who can take care of herself and still lean on her man. And Cassie is a wonderful little girl who I can't wait to read more about. There is no way her story will not eventually be told. This book made me laugh and cry and squirm. I highly recommend it.

So glad to see that Amazon has begun to carry more of Lora Leigh's titles (I just wish more of them were in paperback - I find ebooks annoying at times). I stumbled onto this book and this author after reading a review for it on the Romance Reviews Today website (they gave it a Perfect 10) and I just had to read it.

Dash Sinclair is an animal/human hybrid created in the secret labs of a shadowy, ruthless organization known as The Council. Their purpose was to create super soldiers by mixing human DNA with animal DNA - in Dash's case wolf DNA. But Dash escaped the labs as a teen, living a solitary, lonely life without friends or family ultimately winding up in the military. But on a mission in the Middle East, he and his unit came under fire and Dash was the only one to survive - just barely. His commanding officer worries that Dash is not fighting hard enough to live and begins to read him letters from an eight-year-old girl stateside. She is Cassie Colder and something about her touches Dash and pulls him back from the weary loneliness engulfing him. During his lengthy recuperation he and Cassie correspond, and the more he learns about Cassie and her widowed mom Elizabeth a feeling grows inside him that somehow they belong to him. But suddenly Cassie's letters stop. Then Dash is told that Cassie and her mom perished in a fire. Dash is devastated. Refusing to believe that they're gone, he hires a private investigator to look into both the fire and Elizabeth and Cassie's situation. And just when Dash is about to be discharged and sent home, another letter arrives from Cassie that makes Dash's blood run cold: "... I need you Dash. Please help me and my Momma before the bad guys get us again."

Months later Dash finally tracks Elizabeth and Cassie down just as they are fleeing their apartment and a would-be attacker. Over the last few years they have become very good at disappearing - ever since the murder of her husband by drug lord, pervert and all around thug Terrance Grange. Everyone who has ever tried to help them has paid dearly and now Elizabeth feels she alone must keep Cassie safe. But she is exhausted and yearns for someone to protect them and ease her burdens. When Dash Sinclair shows up out of the blue, she is stunned, wary and attracted. Cassie is delighted - her hero has come to protect her and her Momma! But Elizabeth's trust will be hard won and Dash knows it. Just as he knows that these two females are his to protect and love - his mate and his child. But why is Grange after them? Is he after Elizabeth, Cassie or both of them? The more Dash learns about Grange and Elizabeth's dead husband, he begins to suspect the worst - that somehow The Council may be involved in all this. If that's the case, he'll need some help from his fellow Breeds!

I just LOVED this story! This was my first Breed Series story (and my first book by this author) but it's actually the fourth in the Wolf Breed Series though it stands on it's own. This story is full of action, intensity, passion (NC-17!) and the primal bond of family. Elizabeth is a strong heroine determined to protect her child, Cassie is adorably sweet, intelligent and mischievous. And Dash! He's just yummy - strong, intense, protective, possessive and sweet underneath that rough, tough exterior. For those who like their erotica mixed with action, suspense and romance, this is an author and a series for you! Also check out her Feline Breed Series of stories, the third of which, KISS OF HEAT just came out - and it's also a great read. Very highly recommended!