Christina Dodd - Scent of Darkness

Christina Dodd – Scent of Darkness
Years ago Konstantine Varinski stroke a deal with the devil. In exchange for his soul, he would gain the ability to change into a beautiful predator… One of the things he had to do to gain the bargain is to obtain the family icon… He killed his mother to get it. After he gained his ability, the devil broke the icon in 4, sending it all over the world…
1000 years later one of his descendents leaves the Varinski clan behind and starts a life of his own, with a woman he loves. He changes his name to Wilder and starts his own family.
It’s at a party with her kids that Zorona Wilder experiences a vision about the battle between good and evil, her sons joining the war and her husbands soul in the balance… After she points at him and tells him he is dying, the man collapse…
After a complete make over, Ann Smith is on her way to her boss Jasha Wilder with a contract that needs to be signed. Set out for seduction, she is prepared to go all the way to get the man she has loved a long time.
When she gets there, she in into a big surprise. After waiting for Jasha to arrive, she is stunned to see a terrific wolf entering the house. But she becomes petrified when she sees the animal transform into her handsome boss before her own eyes. Ann has but one option, run for her own life, with a wolf following her track, determined to chase the intruder.
While the storms breaks loose, and Jasha is closing in on her, Ann finds a tile with a Madonna on it… Why are all these things happening to her? But as she turns with the icon in her hands, the wolf is approaching…

I’ve doubting a long time to buy this books… I didn’t dislike Christina Dodd’s books, they just never called to me when I was looking for a book to read…
But this time Janice told me to read it… So obedient girl that I am, I took the book and sat down to read… And I can honestly say, I hardly put it down before I finished!
This story has everything I wanted at that moment… Wolfs, a curse, sensuality and even the good old boss-secretary relationship.
Jasha is arrogant, strong, and with abilities that aren’t in the normal package. He can turn into a wolf, but even as a man he doesn’t loose all those extra senses… He already sensed Ann’s attraction to him, but now she seeked him out in his territory… And now they play by his rules! And while the storm rages, the wolf unleashed his own storm within both of them.
Ann is the efficient secretary who leaves the rules behind for the first time in her life… And it results in her facing a wolf upclose and personal. She is being chased by a wolf, and after the storm seeking his guidance to escape from killers from the Varinski clan, she learns to know Jasha the way he is… Not the idol she took him for, but the real man of flesh and blood… and well, occasionally fur and fangs…
I absolutely loved this book, and I’m eager for the next 3 books in this series. Dodd had definitely a lot of talent in the paranormal genre. And I can’t wait to read what happens with his other brothers and his sister…