COYOTE’S WOMAN by Ann Vremont

Publisher: Changeling Press
Date published: September 2008
ISBN: 978-1-60521-059-9
Western Shapeshifter
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Reviewed by Tammy

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COYOTE’S WOMAN is a Western shapeshifter romance by Changeling Press’ Ann Vremont that is filled with desperation, despair and ultimately a surprising love story fraught with danger.

Lucy Suther’s life has not been an easy one, so it came as little surprise when she was bartered into marriage to a smuggler of women and drugs. Now, having been trapped on the remote ranch for two months while her husband is presumed missing and hopefully dead, Lucy is left with some decisions to make. Just when she decides there may be no way off the Double Nought ranch, a sexy stranger shows up claiming to be her brother-in-law. Now that she has a way off the ranch that has brought her nothing but misery, she finds she just might not want to go.

Ann Vremont takes a story of a woman’s desperation and turns it to gold as Lucy Suther finally gets a chance to leave her tortured life in the Western wilderness when her hated husband is presumed dead. Lucy is a woman so beat down by circumstance that she simply begs for a happy ending to her story. Readers can almost feel Lucy’s despair of ever leaving when she discovers she might be able to leave if she only had the means to do so. Then a sexy stranger shows up and offers her hope. Shane is tall, dark, sexy and the complete opposite to the nightmare Lucy has been married to for way too long. Of course, he does have his own little secrets. But Shane isn’t the only one with an interest in Lucy.

On the negative side, the story is fairly short and the ending is fairly predictable. There is some suspense, but nothing that will have readers biting their nails over. And how Shane’s evil brother managed to keep the family secret a secret, while Shane is clearly unable to do so, did give this reader pause. However, the price is right and readers looking for a shapeshifter romance with a Western flair may enjoy COYOTE’S WOMAN. If nothing else, it gives readers a chance to test the waters into Ann Vremont’s writing style.