Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #4; Psy-Changeling, #19)
Nalini Singh
NYT bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her breathtaking Psy-Changeling Trinity series with a mating that shouldn’t exist . . . Alpha wolf Selenka Durev’s devotion to her pack is equaled only by her anger at anyone who would harm those under her care. That currently includes the empaths who’ve flowed into her city for a symposium that is a security nightmare, a powder keg just waiting for a match. Ethan Night is an Arrow who isn’t an Arrow. Numb and disengaged from the world, he’s loyal only to himself. Assigned as part of the security force at a world-first symposium, he carries a dark agenda tied to the power-hungry and murderous Consortium. Then violence erupts and Ethan finds himself crashing into the heart and soul of an alpha wolf. Mating at first sight is a myth, a fairytale. Yet Selenka’s wolf is resolute: Ethan Night, broken Arrow and a man capable of obsessive devotion, is the mate it has chosen. Even if the mating bond is full of static and not quite as it should be. Because Selenka’s new mate has a terrible secret, his mind surging with a power that is a creature of madness and death . . .
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0 0Most books such as these, that have a fated mates type romance, would be considered a sort of insta-romance. I’m not saying that in a negative, I have no problem with insta-romance. This story is truly insta-romance. Selenka’s wolf literally jumps at Ethan to seal their mating bond within the first 15 minutes of their meeting. Love and mating at first sight! To give them both credit, they roll with it. They are in the middle of an emergency, and many more emergencies arise before the night is out.
The first half (or more) of this book is problem after problem one or both of the pair need to handle, so in some ways they trauma bond, and in other ways they know nothing about each other. Ethan has secrets that he wants to share with Selenka, but they don’t ever have much privacy for things to be hashed out. Selenka knows Ethan has things to tell her, but she also trusts him to not withhold anything when the time comes. He shares a certain duplicity very early on that helps to seal that trust, and Ethan finds he doesn’t want to lie to Selenka or his fellow Arrows now that the fog has cleared from his mind.
It turns out that deadly Ethan has quite a bit of cinnamon roll within him. He’s fantastic with children, inherently understands his duty as the mate to an Alpha wolf, and knows when to be aggressive and when to hold himself back. He’s the exact kind of mate an Alpha needs. Being an Arrow, especially the way he came to be an Arrow, means Ethan is used to being the aggressor. Selenka is the perfect match for that aggression and knows how to get him to give himself a break even when he doesn’t want to. They are a true mated pair even before they can cement their bond.
Even with a lot being revealed in this book, it wasn’t a “sit back and learn” type of story. There is action upon action with things unraveling at a quicker pace in the Psy net with each new book. This one had a fantastic mix of old favorites and new favorites on the page, which I appreciated. The grudging relationship being built between Selenka and the bear Alpha Valentin gave the book little sprinkles of fun when serious things were happening all around. With each story I’m more on the edge of my seat about the Architect and what is happening with the Psy net.
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