title: Darkest Desire: The Wolf's Own Tale
author:  Anthony Schmitz 
description: In <I>Darkest Desire</I> Anthony Schmitz turns the Brothers Grimm on their heads, retelling "Little Red Riding Hood" from the wolf's perspective. Whatever charm the reader might reasonably expect from such a conceit, however, rapidly dissipates under the beast's graphic and unpleasantly sexual descriptions of child murder: <blockquote> If I close my eyes, I can still hear the sound of cloth shredding as I pulled with my teeth. I was mad with rage and joy for a moment, and then I was overwhelmed by guilt. Yes, yes, certainly he was a pathetic thing, so miserably, mistakenly confident. But he was as God had made him, and now he was torn asunder. I quickly lost my appetite. I left him almost whole, except for the upper ham. That I retched in the grass a few minutes later. </blockquote> The wolf goes on to describe how, in the days following this first kill, he "relived those few minutes again and again," and one can't help but think of the Ted Bundys and Jeffrey Dahmers of the world, slouching towards their next gruesome murder.
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  He's the last man she should ever want. She's the last woman he can ever have.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Southern Arcana, Book 2_
  
  
  
  
  
  Coming from a family with psychic gifts, Derek Gabriel was aware of but
  separate from the dangers of the supernatural world, until a rogue wolf
  shifter stripped away his humanity. The change he barely survived didn’t drive
  him insane, but the cultural bias against him as an inferior transformed wolf
  might. And it doesn’t help that he’s fallen for the daughter of the most
  powerful wolf in the country.
  
  
  Almost from the moment she was born, Nicole Peyton started planning her escape
  from the strict confines of elite shapeshifter society, an old-fashioned world
  where women are valued only for their bloodlines and bank accounts. In New
  Orleans she has a bar she loves, friends in decidedly low places, and a
  smoldering sensual tension with an incredibly attractive and deliciously
  unsuitable man.
  
  
  Their forbidden longing erupts into unbridled need—un