Free Desire Unleashed by Savannah Stuart

Desire Unleashed Savannah Stuart
    Book 5 in the Miami Scorcher series.
     
    Turned into a shifter against his will, Ethan Connell would have died if the Lazos pack hadn’t given him shelter. While he’s grateful to them all, there’s one she-wolf he can’t get out of his head. Sweet, sensuous Caro, who not only saved his life but sets his body on fire and triggers his every possessive instinct. But she’s made it clear she just wants only his friendship.
    At first he scoffs at the idea and after six months of biding his time, he makes his move. Instead of rejection, she meets him with a passion he’s only dreamed about, and Ethan knows he’s playing for keeps. If only she’ll let him…

     
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    Desire Unleashed Copyright 2011 Savannah Stuart
    Edited by Shannon Combs Cover design by Syneca Photography: VishStudio
    Electronic book publication September 2011
     
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    DESIRE UNLEASHED
    Savannah Stuart

Prologue
    Ethan tugged on his T-shirt as he trudged across the patio. The run along the Lazos’ strip of private beach was always exhilarating but after six months he still hadn’t gotten used to the fact that he could turn into a wolf.
    Some days it was just too surreal.
    Little more than a year ago he’d simply been a human. An ex-soldier working for various security companies across the globe. Until a crazy doctor had injected him full of some sort of organic serum that turned him into a wolf. Or werewolf to be precise. He’d been a mess after he’d escaped and if it hadn’t been for the Lazos pack, the local shifters who made their home in Miami, he’d be dead. Or worse.
    He opened the sliding glass door to the house where he lived with Paz and Adam, also new members of the pack.
    Paz looked up from where she was dicing tomatoes.
    The petite woman smiled warmly as she always did.
    “Hey, how was the run?”
    “Good.” He racked his brain as he tried to think of something normal to say. He always felt awkward around her. Okay, that wasn’t fair. He felt awkward around everyone. His new pack had all been born with the ability to shift to animal form. He was a freak of nature who’d been turned by a mad doctor. He wasn’t one of them and he wasn’t sure he’d ever fit in. “Uh, you need help with anything?”
    She shook her head and smiled softly. “No, but Caro will be here any minute if