Dash Sinclair is an animal/human hybrid created in the secret labs of a shadowy, ruthless organization known as The Council. Their purpose was to create super soldiers by mixing human DNA with animal DNA - in Dash's case wolf DNA. But Dash escaped the labs as a teen, living a solitary, lonely life without friends or family ultimately winding up in the military. But on a mission in the Middle East, he and his unit came under fire and Dash was the only one to survive - just barely. His commanding officer worries that Dash is not fighting hard enough to live and begins to read him letters from an eight-year-old girl stateside. She is Cassie Colder and something about her touches Dash and pulls him back from the weary loneliness engulfing him. During his lengthy recuperation he and Cassie correspond, and the more he learns about Cassie and her widowed mom Elizabeth a feeling grows inside him that somehow they belong to him. But suddenly Cassie's letters stop. Then Dash is told that Cassie and her mom perished in a fire. Dash is devastated. Refusing to believe that they're gone, he hires a private investigator to look into both the fire and Elizabeth and Cassie's situation. And just when Dash is about to be discharged and sent home, another letter arrives from Cassie that makes Dash's blood run cold: "... I need you Dash. Please help me and my Momma before the bad guys get us again."

Months later Dash finally tracks Elizabeth and Cassie down just as they are fleeing their apartment and a would-be attacker. Over the last few years they have become very good at disappearing - ever since the murder of her husband by drug lord, pervert and all around thug Terrance Grange. Everyone who has ever tried to help them has paid dearly and now Elizabeth feels she alone must keep Cassie safe. But she is exhausted and yearns for someone to protect them and ease her burdens. When Dash Sinclair shows up out of the blue, she is stunned, wary and attracted. Cassie is delighted - her hero has come to protect her and her Momma! But Elizabeth's trust will be hard won and Dash knows it. Just as he knows that these two females are his to protect and love - his mate and his child. But why is Grange after them? Is he after Elizabeth, Cassie or both of them? The more Dash learns about Grange and Elizabeth's dead husband, he begins to suspect the worst - that somehow The Council may be involved in all this. If that's the case, he'll need some help from his fellow Breeds!

I just LOVED this story! This was my first Breed Series story (and my first book by this author) but it's actually the fourth in the Wolf Breed Series though it stands on it's own. This story is full of action, intensity, passion (NC-17!) and the primal bond of family. Elizabeth is a strong heroine determined to protect her child, Cassie is adorably sweet, intelligent and mischievous. And Dash! He's just yummy - strong, intense, protective, possessive and sweet underneath that rough, tough exterior. For those who like their erotica mixed with action, suspense and romance, this is an author and a series for you! Also check out her Feline Breed Series of stories, the third of which, KISS OF HEAT just came out - and it's also a great read. Very highly recommended!


Dead Bang Perfect!   August 8, 2005
 53 out of 56 found this review helpful

I was recommended Lora Leigh by writer Kate Angell. She knows how I like powerful stories that grab the reader and won't let them go. I have three of the "Breed books" and am naturally reading them out of order, typical for me. Still, that is often a good lit test to see if the book is really stand alone. Though this is fourth in the Breed Series, this one truly stands alone well. The Feline books that I have read are super, but Lora Leigh is at TOP FORM with Elizbeth's Wolf. At points in the feline books, while I am really enjoying them, the romance is eschewed in favor of breed matings. While it's powerful writing, it loses the true romance in favor of animal traits. However, with Elizabeth's Wolf, the power of the romance is dead on target. This is Lora Leigh at sheer perfection. She is so concentrated, so in tune with her characters, on the power of a predator finding and protecting his mate.

In this case the "scent" comes through letters from a little girl to a soldier, Dash Sinclair, who has been injured. No one sends letters to Dash. He is truly a lone wolf, a man genetically engineered with wolf in is coding. Unlike the feline breeds, whose traits are more obvious, his wolf breed traits are recessive. As a man born in a test tube, he is so utterly alone. When he is injured, his sight nearly taken from him, his commander sees Dash needs a lifeline, and offers it when letters from Cassie comes in. She has picked his name off a list of soldiers who didn't get mail and began writing Dash. As his commanders reads the letters, Dash begins to think of Cassie and her mother Elizabeth as his.

It's clear to Dash almost immediately, there's problems in Cassie's life with her mother. Her mother is sad and scared. Quickly, Dash needs the letters, needs the woman and child. He arranges presents for Cassie of the year of receiving letters. As he is checking out of the hospital, he learns Cassie and her mother Elizabeth have been killed in an explosion that destroyed the apartment where they were living. So the wolf goes on the hunt to kill the people responsible. He soon gets a letter from Cassie. They escaped, she has another name and her mother and she are on the run for their lives once again. So the hunt switches for Dash, a race to find the child and mother and claim them before the men hunting them catch up kill Elizabeth and take the child. We guess the reason early on (especially so if you have read the other books), but it's not the plot that pulls you. It's the power of Dash's need to protect the woman he now claims and her child.

Lora Leigh is SO POWERFUL with this story. It alone marks her as a talent to watch. This story is just so emotional, so vivid that you won't be able to put it down. Few writers reach this level of craft. So if you haven't read Lora Leigh, this is the one to start with.



Heart warming   June 28, 2004
 24 out of 25 found this review helpful

Elizabeth's Wolf is about a courageously brave woman who risks everything to save her young daughter from an evil man who wants to use her for his own gain. On the way, Elizabeth's daughter Cassie befriends a lone soldier whose background is shrouded in mystery. It is through that development that really culminates how the story meets with a very wonderful and satisfying ending.

It contains vivid details about a mother's love, strength and her all empowering willingness to never give up for the sake of her daughter. This also brings about a very emotionally charged relationship between the soldier, Dash (an absolute alpha man who protects what's his) and Elizabeth. As the story unfolds, we witness how their love for one another blossoms. I loved everything about this story. Not only does it contain hot passionate sex, it also has great main, second and third characters. This story also taught me the importance of valuing a soldier's commitment to fight for his country and protect those weaker than he. At the same time I realize that soldiers sacrifice a lot to do what they do and I've learned to better appreciate them. This is in essence a breed/ wolf story and I loved the little clues about other breeds. It keeps getting better and better. This is an absolutely outstanding book that cannot be missed.


Best Breed Book Yet   June 23, 2004
 18 out of 18 found this review helpful

I really enjoyed this breed book because it was a lone wolf story about a man with more friends than he realized. It was also a story about love and acceptance and families. Finally, the love story was typical Lora Leigh; hot sex and emotional love. Dash is a hero for our times and Elizabeth is a woman who can take care of herself and still lean on her man. And Cassie is a wonderful little girl who I can't wait to read more about. There is no way her story will not eventually be told. This book made me laugh and cry and squirm. I highly recommend it.


Lora Leigh Knows How to Write HOT!   October 24, 2005
 17 out of 17 found this review helpful

Put some plot in there along with all the hot stuff and you've got a really great book to curl up on the couch with. That's what you'll get when you pick up "Elizabeth's Wolf", book three in her Breed series. Since we're reading erotica here, know that the love scenes are up front and personal to say the least. If explicit details turn you off, don't open this one. If the thought of that makes you smile, by all means, pick it up and read on because Lora Leigh NEVER disappoints in that area.

Dash Sinclair (What a name - kind of debonaire, not what I'd have picked for the lead man) is a hardened soldier that has been wounded in combat. While in a coma, his superior reads letters penned to him by a little girl named Cassie. She tells Dash about herself, her pretty momma, Elizabeth and all the hardships in their lives. Through the haze of the coma, Dash can hear the anguish in Cassie's letters and soon begins to dream about her and Elizabeth, who is actually fighting to keep her and her daughter alive. When Dash comes out of his coma, he wastes no time in finding Cassie and Elizabeth and taking them under his protective wing. What Cassie and Elizabeth don't realize (and no one else he's come to know) is that Dash is one of the Breeds that have now been exposed to the world. He is a wolf Breed and very few of them have come forward with their secrets, choosing instead to trust no one.

Elizabeth and Cassie are on the run, fighting to stay one step ahead of some evil perps that want Cassie. Just when they can take it no longer, when the tough just can't go any further, in walks larger-than-life Dash. Somehow Cassie knows this is the man that's come to save them, while Elizabeth has trouble trusting him at first. All too soon, though, it becomes obvious to her and Dash that they have an attraction to one another that will not be denied. They team up after placing Cassie in a safe house and go after the bad guys together, along with many friends that Dash never expected to have.

Dash is undeniably sexy to say the least. Whew! Any woman would be lucky to have him panting after her. However, his alpha male attitude was a little overdone in some areas. I applauded Elizabeth for standing up to him, but her spunky attitude still wasn't enough to put Dash in place like it should have. I wanted their relationship to be more equal. After all, Elizabeth was on the run for a long time, keeping not only herself, but her small daughter alive as well. She made huge sacrifices, often foregoing any food so her daughter could eat. That is not the stuff of a heroine with no backbone, which is the way it seemed sometimes when they got together.

The only other obvious area this book is lacking in is the environment, the scenery in it. You are depending solely on interactions between characters to get a feel for this book. There is no interaction between the characters and the environment they are in, no rich descriptions of the areas surrounding them. If the characters hadn't been so vivid, this could have put the book in jeopardy.

All in all, another satisfying read from Lora Leigh's Breed series. So far, they seem to work out of order as well. I almost never read a series in order, and not having read the second book yet, I had no problem following Dash and Elizabeth's story. We do get a revisit from some of the characters in the first two books ( "Tempting the Beast" and "The Man Within" ), but they contributed well to the story instead of taking away from it. Lora Leigh has penned a series where animal instincts and traits mesh extremely well with the humans that posess them. If you've never read her Breed series, do so. You won't be disappointed.