Oh my gosh, I loved this book so much! It reminded me of the first book by this author, that when I finally picked it up to read, that one I finished in one day. If I’d been off for snow days or any kind of break, that same thing would have happened with this one! And being alone in the library this week, I was so tempted at times to go ahead and just keep my Kindle on my desk and read while no one was there at times. 

The author’s take on vampires and werewolves was quite unique, at least for what I’ve read. I may be out of the know in what other paranormal romances are like. But I liked it! The story had humans, vampires, and weres as they called werewolves, and at least one hybrid between a were and a human. Humans knew about both supernatural creatures in the story, and there were alliances between the different groups. The main character was Misery, and she had been used as collateral between the humans and vampires when she was a child because of the high ranking of her father. She’s since been out of that role and living with her best friend, a human, trying to just get by as a human. Her father decides that they are now doing an alliance with the weres, and has asked her to be in a way a collateral again. Only this time she must marry the Alpha Were. 

Lowe is of course very handsome, and seems like a good guy, other than the fact that it seems like she smells terrible to him for how he acts at first. She agrees to the marriage of convenience because she has reason to believe Lowe might be able to help her find her friend Serena who has disappeared. The reasons she believes this are slowly revealed to us as the time goes by and Misery begins to learn more about her husband’s world and the people/weres in it. 

One of my favorite characters is Lowe’s little sister, and how Misery isn’t quite sure how to deal with a child, but it is humorous and fun to watch because of course Ana immediately adores Misery. As you’d expect there are betrayals and lots of covert missions to discover some things that are afoot in the werewolves world. Including an attempted kidnapping of Lowe’s sister and the other people who are loyal to the Alpha before Lowe. 

I loved this world, all the ways things were handled and the rules and roles of the characters. And it was still a romance as Misery and Lowe fight their attraction to each other as any good marriage of convenience trope should have. Also, when they finally do get together, it was extremely hot! I haven’t read a lot of stories like that, but the way Hazelwood tells it, I might try some others! I agree with other people who commented on my updates on Goodreads as I read this that I would LOVE to have more stories in this world. Be it more of Lowe and Misery and what other fights they might have to go through, or other people finding their own loves, as Hazelwood’s other series/standalone books do different couples in the same world.

Now I just can’t wait for my special edition copy of this to arrive!