Jessie is a successful (albeit still nerdy) president of her own company, but like most canines, she can be distracted by the slightest little thing, which makes for some very funny situations. When they are about to make love, she find his “happy spot” at the base of his skull and proceeds to scratch it until his leg starts thumping. I also laughed until I cried at some of Smitty and Jessie’s behavior. It so full of throwaway lines that I could fill pages with them. The Beast In Him is funny, I mean really, really funny. Jessie wants nothing to do with him, but when a wolf has the scent, he is nothing if not persistent. When Jessie meets Smitty, bells ring, and pheromones run wild. She’s beginning to feel the urge to get a mate of her own, but most of the other males she meets are not up to her standard – they are just too geeky. Jessie now owns a successful software company and has a pack to back her up. After 16 years, Smitty has lost track of Jessie, but at one of their first jobs (security for a party), lo and behold there she is. His alpha sisters used to beat her up, and since she had no pack, poor Jessie was the lowest of the low, but Smitty did his best to take care of her. You do not have to read the first book to enjoy this one, but it does help to get to know the characters.īobby Ray “Smitty” Smith is a wolf shifter, a retired Navy SEAL now in business with his friend Mace Llewellyn, a lion shifter (and yes, they know every cat and dog joke there is.) When he was still a kid, he befriended Jessie Ann Ward, an orphaned dog shifter. Not before proving that their sheet-scorching animal lust is only the start of something even wilder.The Beast In Him is Shelly Laurenston’s loose sequel to her earlier book, The Mane Event. But Smitty's not going to turn tail and run. Jess was never the kind to ask for help, and she doesn't want it now, not even with someone targeting her Pack. The sexy, polished CEO who hires Smitty's security firm might be a million miles from the lovable geek he knew, but her kiss, her touch, is every bit as hot as he imagined. And she can enjoy a romp - or twenty - with a big, bad wolf and walk away. Except now Jess is a success on her own terms.

Back then, Jess's gangly limbs and bruised heart turned to jelly any time Smitty's 'all the better to ravish you with' body came near her. more » by Ray Smith and shows him just how far she's come since high school. Like the moment when Jessica Ward 'accidentally' bumps into Bob. Now, in The Beast in Him, one gorgeous lone wolf is about to meet his match. In The Mane Event, Shelly Laurenston introduced a whole new breed of heroes - sexy, shape-shifting hunks who redefine the term Alpha male.

The Beast in Him by Shelly Laurenston