After reading other books by Keri Arthur, I could not wait to get my hands on this one. It sucked me in from the first chapter. With the first book in her new Ripple Creek series, Arthur turns her unique view from her Nikki and Michael vampire series to werewolves. Beneath A Rising Moon has the mystical charm and mystery that make it a great story. The characters and the romance elements are very well drawn out.

Because of a psychic link between Neva Grant and her twin sister, she was able to stop her sister's attacker from killing her. Now she is on a mission to find the wolf that attacked her sister and murdered three other women. But getting into Sinclair Mansion--the home of a rival werewolf clan--will include going against everything she was raised to believe in. She will have to participate in the very erotic moon dance, and seduce the only Sinclair male that is not a suspect. But he may be the most dangerous of all as he calls to her wild side, the very thing she has spent her whole life trying to control.

Duncan Sinclair has returned home to clear his family name. Instead of going to the family's dance he finds himself watching a woman at the fountain beneath his window. He becomes suspicious of her reasons for being there, and decides to bind her to him for the remainder of the moon cycle. He finds that she touches parts of him that no woman ever has before.

They start the search willing to use each other in any way they can in order to get the job done. But as the search for the killer continues, they find themselves having to learn to trust each other. But the chemistry between them is heating up as well. That may also only fuel the killer more.

Keri Arthur writes a well-paced mysterious and sensually erotic story. If werewolves interest you, you really need to read Beneath A Rising Moon. I would not only recommend this book but also other books by her. Her writing makes you wish to be in the stories she writes.

Reviewed by Tammy Adams
© January 2005