REVIEW: Chaos Wolf – An Abbey Jordan Novel #1 – Sheryl R. Hayes

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Bitten by a werewolf. Taught by a vampire. At this rate, she’s going to start a war.

Literature major Jordan Abbey ordered a double mocha latte, but it wasn't supposed to come with a side order bite by a love-sick werewolf. When a vampire comes to her rescue, gut instinct tells her he has questionable motives. But he’s the only one she can trust to help get in touch with her inner animal.

Within a week, her smart mouth lands her in trouble with the hostile Alpha of the local pack and the stiff-necked vampire Elder. She now has less than a moon cycle to master shape changing... or else. And the besotted werewolf who started this whole mess is stalking Jordan and killing her friends. He won't take no for an answer.

In the Northern California town of Rancho Robles where the children of the Wolf and the Bat share an uneasy coexistence, one woman makes an epic mess of the status quo.

When Jordan goes for coffee, she has no idea how it will change her life. It will lead to her being bitten by a werewolf and saved by a vampire. Montgomery is a vampire and manages to shoot the werewolf gaining him more time to save Jordan. Jordan has no idea what has happened when she wakes up in a strange bedroom.

Montgomery and his friend Thorn try explaining to Jordan that she is now a werewolf, and they are vampires but no matter how hard they try to prove it to her she can’t accept it. Werewolves and vampires exist in novels, not in reality. Montgomery tries to explain to her that she is in danger if she leaves but it doesn’t stop her from running away.

It doesn’t take long before Jordan realizes how right Montgomery was when one of her roommates is killed by Rhys the werewolf that changed her. With no choice she runs back to Montgomery for help only by now the Alpha of the Black Oak Pack, Shane and the elder of Rancho Robles, Marcus are aware that there is a new werewolf.

Jordan is given a choice allow the vampires to protect her by becoming famulus or joining the pack. She chooses famulus with Montgomery as her patron. Pretty much she will be a slave, but Montgomery is the man who saved her and who she is familiar with. Now it is a battle between the vampires and werewolves over Jordan and who she will choose once she learns to shift.

Rhys and Jordan are both Chaos werewolves, werewolves without a pack but Rhys seems to be able to hide from those after him. His only thought is finding his mate and the vampire who is keeping her prisoner. He is convinced that his mate would come to him if she was free.

Jordan is caught between vampires and werewolves who hate each other but have a treaty to hopefully avoid a war.

Secrets abound and some of them are a doozy. I can’t wait to pick up book two and follow Jordan and her adventures.