Half-Breed

Half-Breed
Marcia Colette
Double Dragon Publishing
ISBN: 1-55404-349-2
Fiction, Fantasy
Reviewed by Eugen M. Bacon

Powerful cover graphics of a female, naked as Eve, in the company of wolves trains one for this action-packed novel. Half-Breed opens robustly with a prologue that introduces Alexa: half-human, half-werewolf. The human side of her is moral-struck; the were-wolf side is as deadly as they come. Matt and Lex have a past to flee. A few deviations, a bunch of characters, and they meet pack werewolves of a different kind. Matt fits right in; Alexa is caught between loyalties. Hunting Club or Pack? She is an impetuous hybrid tailed by a double life. Working wife or contract killer? Secrets, secrets... But there is one hubby with ample body heat to protect. Passion leaves pages sizzling. Lex must rediscover herself -not that she’s in deep crisis over her werewolf side.
A clever editorial component would have refined and compassed this story, sharpened conflicts, reconnaissance and the giant marble of scores rolling with hazard, ever returning to haunt. Marcia Colette makes her mark with this werewolf fantasy and, perhaps, prepares readers for her next serving.