Bad Wolf (Shifters Unbound, #7.5) by Jennifer Ashley

Bad Wolf (Jennifer Ashley)

SUMMARY

Wolf Shifter Broderick is stuck looking after his three younger brothers and a Collar-less Shifter who is driving him crazy, but he’s putting up with it for Joanne, the human woman he, for some reason, wants to impress. Joanne Greene, while grateful to Broderick for rescuing her sister, doesn’t know what to make of him. She’s been a loner most of her life, better able to relate to computers and coding than to people, until she’s drawn into the world of the Shifters.

Broderick is everything Joanne is not—a fighter and a tracker, from a rough-and-tumble family, better at working with his hands than understanding the netherworld of Joanne’s computer programmer life. Broderick is also extremely protective, wanting to draw her under his care as he does everyone else.

When Broderick is captured, mistaken for a Guardian, it’s Joanne who figures out that hackers are after the Guardian Network, the database that holds the deep secrets of Shifters past and present. Strangely, Broderick now holds the key to stopping the deadly danger of the network's breach, and Joanne with her coding skills is the only one who can help him. 

MY REVIEW

This is the story of Broderick and Joanne.
Joanne in previous books, in order to save her sister, acted against shifters.
Broderick is a hard-ass lupine, a loud talker and a tough fighter but seriously lonely. He had stand up for Joanne, when all the other shifters hated her.
In this book someone is after the guardian's network and Broderick is kidnapped mistaken for a guardian. He will manage to escape and Joanne as a programmer with hucker skills will help him to solve the mystery of a dead gurdian and his sword which has disappeared.
My main issue is that the book felt a bit rushed -especially towards the end. Also, the chemistry between Broderick and Joanne was not very strong at the beginning. It took me a while to be convinced for their suitability.
Anyhow, still it was an enjoyable addition to the Shifters Unbound series.