Animal Acceptance by Beatrice Vargas
This is not a fairy-tale. She’s no innocent. And there isn’t a big bad wolf.
There are two of them.
Lynne has turned her back on London and a bad marriage, only to be marooned in the Irish countryside by months of torrential rain. Until her cozy isolation is shattered by a long-lost friend, over from the U.S. and keen to saddle her with his companions. Men who barely speak but will calmly install themselves, first in her house and then in her bed. Men who turn out to be exactly what they seem.
Not the moon-cursed transmutation, obviously. They get mad if you even say that word. Their kind is real, whether they like it or not. No fur, no sudden fangs. Because a man who truly embodies the spirit of a wolf is tall, lean, silent and mysterious. Formidable, but interesting. Always on the lookout for food, and sex. Meet Lou and Johnny.
Lynne may not know their secret, yet she knows exactly what she’s doing when she takes them on. It’s fun. But how will she keep this quirky ménage intact when the outside world, and the weather, insist upon intruding? And what will happen when she discovers their true nature, and their ulterior motive?
Literary with a paranormal streak, this is a story for women raised on Angela Carter, who relish dark and dangerous masculinity but would prefer it tempered by a modern sensibility. Instinctive, consensual, the way it is out there, in the forest.
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