I have read this book multiple times and loved it as much as I did the first time around. Elizabeth's story is very compelling. Cassie is a precocious child who is obviously going to have her story told one day.

I love this series by Lora Leigh and Elizabeth’s Wolf is the best yet. When a very badly wounded soldier named Dash received a pen pal letter from a little girl named Cassie her stories save his life. Dash can tell from the child’s letters she and her mom Elizabeth are frightened and it makes him determined to get back in shape to save them. When Dash finally finds them he knows Elizabeth is is mate and she and Cassie have to be protected from a man named Grange who in two years is still hunting a woman and her child but there must be more to it and Dash is going to find out. Elizabeth is not sure what this stranger is thinking but Elizabeth trusts no one as anyone who has tried to help her has died or disappeared. Can Elizabeth trust this man? He seems to be trustworthy but she is so exhausted from running she may just let her guard down a little bit. I loved Elizabeths strength and fearlessness protecting her child and Dash’s dedication to a little girl who saved his life.

ELIZABETH’S WOLF is the third instalment in Lora Leigh’s contemporary, adult BREEDS erotic, paranormal romance series. This is Special Forces soldier and Wolf Breed Dash Sinclair, and Elizabeth and her seven-year old daughter Cassie Colder’s story line. ELIZABETH’S WOLF can be read as a stand alone but I recommend reading the series in order for back story and cohesion as there is a continuing premise throughout.

SOME BACKGROUND: Lora Leigh’s paranormal Breed series focuses on a government experiment that went horribly wrong. Trying to create the ultimate warrior and weapon, scientists combined animal DNA with human embryos resulting in a species that has been feared and tortured since their inception. Hoping to prevent their exposure, the Breeds are hunted, tortured, tested and destroyed by the very people who created them. This is not a series about animal shifters, but a series about humans created with animal DNA.


Told from dual third person perspectives (Dash and Elizabeth) ELIZABETH’S WOLF follows the building relationship between Special Forces soldier and wolf Breed Dash Sinclair, and human Elizabeth Colder. Elizabeth and seven year old Cassie Colder are on the run. With the recent murder of Elizabeth’s abusive husband, Cassie was forced to watch her father die, and now someone is hunting the mother and daughter duo, and our heroine has no idea as to the reason why. When a grade-school project finds Cassie in communication with a wounded Special Forces soldier, Elizabeth is unaware how her life is about to change. Enter Dash Sinclair, Wolf Breed enforcer, and the man with whom Elizabeth will fall in love. What ensues is the building relationship between Elizabeth and Dash, and the potential fall-out as the Breed hierarchy and Dash hunt for the people responsible for the attack on Elizabeth and Cassie’s lives.

Like all of Lora Leigh’s BREED books, ELIZABETH’S WOLF is an erotic romance story line with graphic scenes of sexual aggression, and animal like sexual behavior. Lora’s excessive use of a certain four-letter word is troublesome but like many authors Lora’s style will change throughout the series.

Dash Sinclair has never found a mate, and is unaware of the animal-like tendencies during mating that may create some problems and difficulties claiming the woman that calls to his heart. Once again, as the series develops, each animal characteristic will become evident as the author offers up the true nature of the beast.

The world building continues to focus on the search for a number of the missing Breeds thought to have escaped the government compounds. With each successive instalment there is more background information, and Breed features and characteristics revealed.

Cassie, as we will discover, is a special child who talks to spirits, specifically a ‘fairy-like’ apparition that warns and directs Cassie throughout her life. This spirit will become more prominent as the heroine grows, playing an active role in Cassie’ book CROSS BREED.

ELIZABETH’S WOLF is an action packed, exciting, and revealing story line that sets-up many of the upcoming instalments. If you are a fan of the paranormal romance, Lora Leigh’s BREED series is worth the price of admission.

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*4.5 stars*

Prepare to fall in love…

I remember reading this years ago and I’m still in love with the series storyline and the characters that bring it to life. This is a re-issued, re-edited version and it was like finding a new favourite while visiting an old one…
Dash had been hiding. Hiding from his roots, from making connections. From daring to live a life he was afraid to have. When he was ready to let it all go, Cassie’s letters, her words, touched his heart and his soul. Flowery words for a man who was born to be alpha but the emotions he felt were anything but poetic. He had always been a force but now, now he was driven by love…

“First… First, he had to find the family he had claimed in the darkness of pain.”

The only way to describe Elizabeth was fierce. She was protective in a way that no mother should ever have to be but circumstances meant she had to stay one step ahead at all times to keep her daughter safe. Everything she did, everything, was with one eye always watching for the next threat. She knew it would come, it always did, and she had learned to be wary. Dash was too good to be true… wasn’t he?

It’s hard to pick what I loved most about this suspenseful, paranormal-tinged, tension-filled read. Cassie was a little dynamo and her character was the focal point of every situation as Dash and Elizabeth met and began figuring out their relationship. Trust was key and it was hard won with actions speaking louder than words. And those actions? Yeah, they were hot….

With a shift in focus in the latter chapters, the dynamic changed again. The focus was still on survival, but it allowed the chemistry between Dash and Elizabeth to sizzle in heated scenes that scorched chapter after chapter. Put it all together and this love story has me reaching for this series’ first book so I can start a re-read long overdue…

✦Review: ELIZABETH’S WOLF (A Novel of the Breeds) by Lora Leigh https://wp.me/p3d0RZ-ayE
Publication Date: January 2, 2018
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Reviewed by: Reading in Pajamas/ Cori
Rated 4.5 Stars

ELIZABETH’S WOLF has been revised and re-released by Berkley just in time for the release of Cassie’s book in September 2018. Cassie’s story begins in ELIZABETH’S WOLF as a little girl and it tells her mother’s story. The Breed series features Cassie in the storyline and readers have read about her growing up throughout the series. The Breed series is about genetically engineered human/ animals that were raised in labs and it is set in the future. ELIZABETH’S WOLF is one of my favorite books in the series and it was fun to revisit the story and prepare for Cassie’s book, CROSS BREED. If you’re new to this series, the beginning of the series is being re-released so you can start at the beginning. I recommend reading them in order to follow the series storyline, but each book can be read as a standalone. The Breed series is suspenseful, emotional and scorching hot. I highly recommend this series for paranormal lovers. You’ll definitely want to binge read the series.

*Review copy provided by Penguin in exchange for an honest review.

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THE BREED SERIES BY LORA LEIGH - NEW RELEASES AND RE-RELEASES
Lora Leigh is re-releasing some of the BREED SERIES that have been unavailable. Here's a list of what's releasing and available. Full reading order is below. It’s a paranormal romance/ erotica series.

✦Tempting the Beast by Lora Leigh (RE-RELEASE 09/18/17) ➢ Kindle $4.49 http://amzn.to/2xqDyZj
✦Elizabeth's Wolf (A Novel of the Breeds) by Lora Leigh (RE-RELEASE 01/02/18) ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/2hbaBHa
✦Cross Breed (A Novel of the Breeds) by Lora Leigh (Paranormal Romance) (Releasing 09/25/18) ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/2hX7N3S

✦THE BREED SERIES BY LORA LEIGH - AMAZON SERIES LINK http://amzn.to/2xtjMw4
1. Tempting the Beast (Self-Pub RE-RELEASE 09/18/17) ➢ Kindle $4.49 http://amzn.to/2xqDyZj
2. The Man Within - Temporarily not available
3. Elizabeth's Wolf - (Berkley RE-RELEASE 01/02/18) ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/2hbaBHa
4. Kiss of Heat - Temporarily not available
5. Soul Deep - Temporarily not available
6. The Breed Next Door (Hotspell Anthology) - Berkley
7. Megan's Mark - Berkley
8. Harmony's Way - Berkley
9. Tanner's Scheme - Berkley
10. Wolf's Hope - Temporarily not available
11. Jacob's Faith - Temporarily not available
12. Aiden's Charity - Temporarily not available
13. In A Wolf's Embrace (Beyond The Dark Anthology) - Berkley
14. Dawn's Awakening - Berkley
15. A Jaguar's Kiss (Shifter Anthology) - Berkley
16. Mercury's War - Berkley
17. Christmas Heat (The Magical Christmas Cat Anthology) - Berkley
18. Coyote's Mate - Berkley
19. Bengal's Heart - Berkley
20. A Christmas Kiss (Hot for the Holidays Anthology) - Berkley
21. Lion's Heat - Berkley
22. Styx's Storm - Berkley
23. Primal Kiss (Primal Anthology) - Berkley
24. Navarro's Promise - Berkley
25. An Inconvenient Mate (Tied With A Bow) - Berkley
26. Lawe's Justice - Berkley
27. Stygian's Honor - Berkley
28. Enthralled - Berkley
29. Rule Breaker - Berkley
30. Bengal's Quest - Berkley
31. Wake A Sleeping Tiger ➢ Review http://wp.me/p3d0RZ-8jt
32. Cross Breed (Cassie’s Book) (Berkley Releasing 09/25/18) ➢ Kindle http://amzn.to/2hX7N3S

If you’ve followed by reviews for any length of time, you know I have a love-hate relationship with the Breeds series by Lora Leigh. It’s my crack - not always providing substance, but hard to quit. I started the series with Megan’s Mark (book #7), so I missed out on a few of the early, world-building titles. Berkley Publishing and the author are re-releasing Elizabeth’s Wolf, in preparation of this fall’s release of Cassie’s book (Cross Breed). Hear the cheer from fans around the world!

Dash, posing as a human solider, was injured in the line of duty, losing his men at the same time. Feeling hopeless, his world turns around when he starts receiving letters from a little girl named Cassie. He knows instantly that Cassie, and her mom Elizabeth, are his to claim, but he needs to find and save them from the bad men first.

Elizabeth escaped her good-for-nothing ex, but has been on the run for two years from the sadistic man who killed her ex in front of her daughter, Cassie. Cassie, with the aid of her invisible fairy friend, reaches out to Dash and is convinced he’ll help rescue them from the evil haunting her mother and her.

Going back in time (for me) to near the beginning, it was a fun look to see how things have progressed and changed in the Breeds series over the course of several years. I like how simple this early story is. Dash knows who/what he is, but doesn’t know about the mating issues for Breeds. He knows Elizabeth is his mate. She’s strong, and he respects that - recognizing she would need to match him and be his equal in order to fight along side of him. He is alpha, but not as much of an asshole as many of the Breeds are later in the series.

I love how tough the young Elizabeth is. She’s very weary of Dash, but knows that he’s their only hope, right now. She will do what it takes to keep her daughter alive. As the pair spend time together, they don’t fight their growing attraction and fall head-over-heels for one another. Their journey to HEA is relatively smooth, and I like that they don’t fight the mutual pull.

In the end, I enjoyed going back to the beginning. I didn’t read the original version (although I own it), so I can’t tell you what was edited or changed in this version. It follows the formulaic plots from the earlier/mid series books. The Mating Heat is still unknown and isn’t nearly as strong, and with far fewer symptoms/side effects, than later in the series. I like that Dash and Elizabeth are more equals and they work together.

For newcomers to the series - it’s an easy place to start since it is only book #3, but for fans of the series, it’s fun to go back and see how it all started before we FINALLY get Cassie’s book (although from the excerpt, I found myself a bit annoyed with her attitude.)

The series was my crack at one point, and if the author had continued to keep the books a bit more straightforward and clean, like this one, I probably would still be sucked in.

My Rating: B, Liked It

Dash Sinclair was as good as dead. He had lost his closest friends and fellow soldiers in Iraq and was ready to just give up. Until he was saved from the infinite dark by the letters written by a seven-year-old girl.

Her name was Cassie and her words gave him the strength to fight. Now he has to live to rescue her and her mother the way that they rescued him.

“My momma says you are a very brave man. That you are fighting to keep up safe. I wish you were here with us, Dash, cause sometimes my momma gets very tired.”
Even though he was in pain, barely conscious, a sense of alarm surged through him. He could hear her fear in that simple sentence, read by the major, who didn’t seem to recognize it. It was a plea for protection. And he knew in that moment he’d have to fight to live.
He had to live.
He had to save Cassie and her momma.

Elizabeth Colder and her daughter Cassie have been running scared for what seems like years. After witnessing the murder of her father, young Cassie is now the target of a very powerful man who will stop at nothing to find her.

Salvation appears in the form of a hardened soldier with mesmerizing eyes and an intensity that Elizabeth can feel in her soul. But there is something more about Dash Sinclair that attracts her like a moth to a flame and Elizabeth is more than willing to get burned.

“Go to Cassie,” he finally growled. “Get away from me before I take you now. Kane and his brothers, as well as several of the main Feline Pride, will be here tonight. Get ready, Elizabeth, because when they leave, you’ll see what it means to be my woman.”

This is the series where our obsession for paranormal romance was born! Lora Leigh has created characters that radiate more heat and sizzle than should be allowed between two covers.

Elizabeth’s Wolf is a classic example of when sensuality and suspense combine in the very best of ways. And we are always rabid for more…

When I first saw this story i thought it was interesting even though I had never read this author before or the series.

The beginning I found to a little slow with getting to the back story with there essentially being two stories, Cassie and Dash. Cassie and her mother are on the run from the man that killed her father and want Cassie because she witnessed it. Trying to bring normalcy to her daughter's life on the run Elizabeth enrolls Cassie in school for a brief time, where Cassie's class pick soldiers to become pen pals with. She picks Dash's name because his name sounds like a 'good daddy's name' and from the moment Dash's sergeant reads him the letter, because Dash was in a comma at the time, he knew he had to help Cassie and her mother.

Not sure if Dash was in the other Crossbreed novels but it was semi vague about what happened to him. It wasn't until later when he is explaining his story to Elizabeth that we(I) get the full story. After the two finally meet then the story starts getting interesting.

The truth behind Elizabeth, Cassie and Dash all unfolds in this action packed novel and to say i loved how the story unfolded would be an understatement. I was enthralled with it and couldn't put it down, and for a ne having come into this world on like, the 15th novel is something! It can totally be read as a stand alone, but I'm guessing it would be a better reading experience if you followed the other stories, which I am totally going to do.

The chemistry I have to say is lava, Dash is as Alpha as you'd expect him to be and is not afraid to show it, but Elizabeth is a strong female and by no means a pushover despite what she has been through. The story I found dragged a bit, but that's not It to say that it didn't hold my attention. It was appropriately evened out with action and sexy time, but a lot of inner dialogue.

All in all I enjoyed the story and will be reading the next book about.

I love this book. From the start it tugs at your heart and then evolves to an action filled, hot alpha male that loves his mate with everything he has. This book is told from 3rd POV but I liked that aspect. Normally I don’t but with this book I was able to get the whole picture and I loved every second. I plan to go back and read all the Breed novels at some point. 4 Stars #2OCCJD