Shifting Desires by Skylar Sinclair, Jude Mason and Sapphire Phelan

Shifting Desires by Skylar Sinclair, Jude Mason and Sapphire Phelan
Publisher: Phaze Books
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal
Length: Full (199 pgs)
Other: M/F * BDSM * M/F/F/M
Rating: 3.5 Cherries
Review by Lilac

Together in one volume: the best in shape-shifting erotic romance!

Purr For Me by Skylar Sinclair: Halloween provides the purrfect backdrop for shifter Panteara to assume her sleek, feline form. Mingling at a wild party, she’s looking for casual passion, but gets more than she bargained for when she meets another of her kind. Alpha lion Rourke is looking for a mate, and sets his sights on the lovely she-panther. Enjoy this sweet holiday treat from Skylar Sinclair.

Beast Magic by Sapphire Phelan: They came from two different worlds. Ramses was a werelion. Shana Tory was human. The Dreaming foretold them as soul mates. So Ramses tracked her down in America, and when he found her, made her his and brought her back home with him to the South African Bushveld. But others from his pride, led by one evil lioness, do not want them together. Besides their lives, will their love survive the coming war?

Cat’s Claw by Jude Mason: The death of a long time friend leads Morgan Fields on an extraordinary quest into the backwoods where she finds love and so much more. Joshua Lansing, the son of her deceased friend helps her explore the heritage she never knew was hers.

Elements: scenes of violence in Beast Magic

An interesting anthology, Shifting Desires features three passion-filled stories about shapeshifters finding romance and love.

In Skylar Sinclair’s “Purr for Me,” a young female panther shapeshifter heads to a Halloween party and meets her mate in the form of a alpha male lion shapeshifter. This short story had an interesting twist that I definitely didn’t see coming and that made me really think about what I had read. Flicking his nipples from tongue and squeezing is a nice idea buy viagra sale to heighten the sensation. When the distributor can present more comfortably and easily, they viagra lowest prices are apt to do so more often. Men who work day and night and purchase generic viagra mentally keep thinking regarding their business are having an issue, talk to your partner before problems escalate. After bariatric surgery, people have improved physical appearance and best online viagra check out content functioning, have improved self’ confidence and respect and improved psychosocial, sexual and reproductive health. Full of passion and heat, my one complaint would be that it was too short and I would have love to have read more beyond the ending pages.

“Beast Magic” by Sapphire Phelan also features some intriguing characters and uses vivid descriptions to give us the story of a young woman with a fear of lions who soon learns that her fated mate is in fact a lion shapeshifter. But a rival is determined to keep the couple apart in this passionate, and sometimes violent, story. I have to be honest and say that I didn’t quite care for the heroine of the story as she seems a bit naïve and too quick to buy the hero’s story, but I really liked the hero, Ramses. I found it interesting that Ramses describes himself as a lion who becomes a man rather than a man who becomes a lion. He must spend most of his time in lion form as that is his true nature. I really liked this concept and found it refreshing as it isn’t something I have seen in many shapeshifter stories as most usually are men who occasionally become animals.

The final story in the anthology, “Cat’s Claw” by Jude Mason is a fascinating look at a young woman who travels into the woods to inform a good friend’s reclusive son of his passing and finds more than she bargained for as both share a secret that brings them together. In addition to the heroine discovering love and her true nature, this story also deals with poachers who are encroaching on the hero’s property. At times the story turned a bit violent as it blurred the lines between the bestial and human nature of the characters as they gave into their animal instincts. Overall, the story was quite enjoyable and intriguing.

As a whole, Shifting Desires is an intriguing anthology featuring three different stories each featuring loving and passionate shapeshifters. All three authors created a fascinating world and characters using vivid descriptions to give a brief glimpse at their individual worlds. However, at times these glimpses are a bit too brief and I wish they had all been a bit longer. However, the entire anthology is enjoyable and I enjoyed the authors’ takes on the concept of shapeshifting.