Shifter's Dance: Murder at the Pow Wow Spirit Walker Suspense/Thrillers Book 4
Paranormal Romance/Suspense/Werewolf Shifter
Independently Published
May 31, 2021
314
Aurora Taylor came to South Dakota to capture pictures for a calendar benefitting the Wild Horse Sanctuary. Yet she quickly found herself drawn to more than just the majestic landscape. From the moment she meets Chase, she's drawn to him. Yet despite their mutual attraction, he's holding back and it's tearing Aurora apart. Chase White Bear aches for Aurora. But his people, the Oglala Sioux, have a secret he can't risk her discovering. As much as it pains him, he vows to himself to keep his distance. Until... a murderer on the loose begins painting a bloody trail straight for Aurora. Five people have been found dead, each within dangerous proximity to Aurora. Fearing for her safety, Chase casts his reservations aside and joins the hunt to bring the killer down. Can the pair uncover the truth before the body count rises? Or will the secret Chase is hiding put Aurora in the crosshairs of danger? From Award-Winning Author Laura Hawks comes another thrilling mystery.
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Aurora Taylor has come to South Dakota to work on a calendar to benefit the Wild Horse Sanctuary but decided to take in the sites which included watching the bull fighting competition. With her camera in hand and her desire to catch the bulls without anything in the way she steps into the pit, an act that caused quite a commotion and nearly caused her death.
Chase White Bear is riding for hopefully second place because he has a secret identity that would surely bring what he is to the attention of the world. First place would be easy for him to achieve either in his shifter form or his human form but after a while the fact that he doesn’t seem to age would be all people would focus on.
Chase saw Aurora and saved her from a charging bull aiming straight for her and something about her just held his attention. Knowing full well that having even a one-night stand with a human was something he should not pursue, his other half pushed him to do exactly what he shouldn’t. Going against everything he knew he couldn’t stop himself and after their one-night stand, and what a one-night stand it was, it just made his desire for her stronger.
Aurora knew she would never see Chase again although forgetting him would not be easy so she decided to do her job with the calendar, another innocent move that would lead to trouble for her and Chase because she saw him while photographing the horses and her curiosity once again got the better of her. She managed to hide while waiting for the gathering she was told was going to take place with her camera in hand.
Discovered by Chase and brought before the elders she got a view of exactly what Chase and the others were because his best friend went after her as a mountain lion and the secret was now out. Death was the way this kind of situation was handled in the past but if you read the other stories in this series then you are aware of the fact that other human women have mated with shifters and kept the secret. Then there is another reason for her not to die, no I won’t reveal what that is.
Making things worse for her is that two people are found dead and she is the one suspected of killing them in addition to two deaths at her hotel. Sane minds are convinced that she could not murder a shifter but those who want her dead are not functioning with sane minds they are one sided in their thinking and that means death.
There are secrets that lead back to 1877 when a woman whose husband died was promised a new life only to find herself forced into sex with the miners. Her death and her killer have led to what is happening in the present and it is quite a story. This was a book full of secrets, surprises, romance, sex and amazing characters. I was fortunate to have read the previous books and so I can definitely say this is a book and series worth your time and money.
