Turned by the Midlife Wolf

Shifter Nation: Marked Over Forty

De: Meg Ripley

Narrado por: Elle Sonali

At 46, I went back to college to learn about mythical creatures.
I never thought my hot professor would turn me into one.

After giving my life to raising my daughters,
It was time for me to live out my dream
And go back to school to get my degree.
Meeting a cute guy my age in the coffee shop,
I thought my first day was off to a great start.
Until I got to class and realized Sean was my professor.
My daughter says he’s the campus crush,
But just like the creatures in his folklore lectures,
His private life is shrouded in mystery—
Which only made me want to find out more.
I signed up for an extra credit field trip,
Looking for Bigfoot in the woods.
But when my car broke down and he drove me home,
The professor gave me an education I’ll never forget.
I’m his student, so we’re forbidden to be together,
But that’s just the beginning of my troubles.
During another outing, I’m shot by a hunter,
And as I lay dying in the forest,
Sean offers me a second chance at life.
He changes into a wolf right before my eyes,
And when he bites me, I return from the brink of death—
As a wolf, just like him.

Steamy shifter love scenes and an HEA inside! No cheating or cliffhanger in this standalone romance. Listeners18+."

©2023 Meg Ripley (P)2024 Meg Ripley

Turned by the Midlife Wolf

Angela is in her 40s and it's her first day at college. She put it on the back burner when she raised her two daughters. She is excited and scared. She goes for coffee and there are a couple of college girls that are giggling and looking at her. Then one goth looking girl tells her there is something brown on her backside pocket. A nice looking man takes his cardigan off and tells her to tie it around herself. The goth girl and her take off for class. To her surprise the nice man is the professor in her class.
Sean is a professor of folklore. It's the first day of the semester and he is hopeful although from previous years he knows it may be down heartening. To his surprise the woman he helped out at the coffee shop is in his class. To his utter surprise his wolf recognized her as his mate. He has been looking for her for years and now here she is but she's human. He is a wolf. Plus he's a professor going for tenure.
Thus begins the longest few months of his life for both him and his wolf. His wolf wants it's mate now. Sean is more conservative.
Slowly he and she come close until the day something happens that opens her eyes to the paranormal and changes her life unequivocally. Will she accept him and will her daughters? Can she accept her life has changed??
Elle Sonali is a fantastic narrator who brings a calm and quiet demeanor to Angela as well as to Sean as they both manouever through a relationship and the results of it.
A fantastic audio and story!!.

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Awesome

Angela is returning to school in her 40's. She always wanted to be a writer but raised her daughters instead until they were grown. She meet Sean, one of her professors, and there's attraction there. When out on a field study, she's shot by a hunter; The hunter was shooting at a sasquatch that was near by. Sean is a wolf shifter and he changes her into a shifter to save her life. Angela struggles with the knowledge of being a shifter, but realizes a lot has to do with her childhood up bringing and her belief in sasquatch. When the hunter hunts down Angela and Sean, Sean fights the hunter to protect them.
OK, I really like this story. It's whimsical, good characters, little steam,and happily-ever-mated. The feelings of Sean and Angela is written well that you feel their struggle and pain.

The audiobook is done very well. Elle Sonali narrates and does a wonderful job with it. I couldn't stop listening until I finished the book. Very enjoyable.

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Arc review /Audible

I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review. Angela Garcia wanting to Follow her Dreams of writing goes back to school where she learns that folklore is closer then she thinks . this was a fantastic beautiful story.

Books, romance, and a Sasquatch

Cat’s Stats
MMC/FMC- Sean and Angela
Genre- Paranormal Romance
Sub Genre- Shifters (wolf)
Sub Genre- Sasquatch (Sasquatch)
Length- 5 hours and 22 minutes
Heat- they do the thing without using the P word or the C word.
Series? Y
Safety? Y
Triggers- sex, violence, rogue chocolate muffins
Tropes- Professor/Student; Fated Mates; To Everything Turn, Turn, Turn…; Paperback Writer; Eighture Nineure Tenure, Hungry Like the Wolf, Love In Unusual Places; Midlife Love
Hook- a professor realizes that a forty-six year old student is his fated mate and he must turn her in order to save her life.
What I liked- I like that this series is based on the idea that people over forty can find passionate love. I liked the characters and I found the ideas about folklore and cryptids very interesting. The Sasquatch really elevated the story to something special. The first sexytime scene was very hot.
Narrator Review- I give the narrator a 4/5 because I thought her pacing was inconsistent- sometimes appropriate but often very slow.

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Awesome Amazing Story !! . . .

Angela Garcia has raised her family and is finally ready now to attend Eugene University to pursue her dream. She meets a handsome man at the campus coffee shop and they chat while waiting for their coffee order. The younger students were all giggling from the time she walked in. Finally one girl, Renata, told her she had something brown smeared all over the back of her pants. She must have been sitting on a piece of her chocolate muffin in the car! She was embarrassed but the handsome man pulled off his sweater and told her to tie it around her for the rest of the day and she would be fine. He had a t-shirt under the sweater, so he was okay in that and his jeans as he rushed off to class. Renata was going to the same place as Angela and assured her they would not be late as they walked together. Both taking the same class, they took their seats as her handsome hero from the coffee shop, Sean Deschamps, introduced himself as their professor in her American Folklore class. Sean hadn’t seen her yet in the back of the room, but his wolf was acting crazy this morning. And when he finally spotted her, he knew this would be a difficult semester as he stared at his mate!

Angela returned Sean’s sweater at his office and, as they touched, they felt a spark between them. He asked if she would come on the Bigfoot search that weekend for extra credit. On another search without the entire class to scare the creature off, Angela ended up getting shot in the stomach. Renata was also in the woods, said she was looking for her phone and heard the shot. With no cell signal, they could not get an ambulance in time. So Renata, a wolf shifter, looked at Sean and told him there was only one way they could save her life. He was Angela’s mate, so he offered to bite her and hope she could shift if it was not too late. A shadow fell on them and a sasquatch stood looking down at Angela. The creature touched her shoulder next to the bite and she shifted! But his student Callum was also in the woods and had just used his phone to video what had happened! Would their secret be made public now? And would she accept her mate after he explained all of this to her?

Loved this couple

Truly love this series. Angela is 46 year old woman that returns to school to seek her education in creative writing. After a slight disaster her first day puts her in Sean’s path. Loved their back and forth of trying to fight their pull. The side characters were amazing in this one too.

Turned

This is Angela and Sean's story. Angela decides to go back to school, only to have the same crush on Sean as the other students. Twice he has had to save her. But the last time might be the last? I would of liked to seen more of her daughters and how they could have been involved in all of this.

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Finding your mate in college

Angela is going to college but she not in her twenties, no she is in her forties living her dream to get her degree. She meets Sean one of her professors who saves her from a embarrassing first day. The story goes from one twist to another. Love love it. Couldn't stop listening finished it on one day.

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Refreshing Change of Pace

I've read or listened to most, if not all, of the books in this Marked Over Forty series. Until this book, most stories in it followed a similar pattern. In this series and in this author's case, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing—as it was an excellent framework for stories—but they were getting predictable. The author really did change it up this time and in so many delightful ways. First, she used a female narrator. In previous books, she had a rather gritty-voiced male narrator. Even though perspective alternated between chapters and characters, it certainly gave a much more female vibe to the entire story. As with all the books in this series, the main characters are well into middle age; love that! The heroine is going back to school to pursue an English degree; she wants to be a writer. I love how both she and one of her daughters are going to the same school! In an embarrassing incident in the college cafeteria on her first day, she meets the hero, who turns out to be one of her instructors, for modern folklore. While I enjoyed the book immensely, this smart and sexy instructor was not well embodied on the book's cover! That man’s look goes along much more with the other heroes in this series, most of whom are blue-collar guys. She should have chosen a hunky, nearly 50-year-old male model that looked more professorial … or at least wore a shirt!

But I digress. He's a shifter; she is not. Instantly, he knows she is his mate. This, of course, puts him in conflict because he is ethically bound not to have any sort of personal relationship with a student. I enjoyed watching them dance around their attraction to each other, as she also had reservations about a relationship, not only because he’s her instructor but also whether she wants a man in her life after not having one in it for so long.

But her life was about to get quite a lot more complicated. In an outing to look for Sasquatch, she is shot and is soon on the very brink of death. He can't imagine losing her, and so he takes the only means available to him to save her life. I won't spell it out exactly, but the title will give you a clue! I didn't like how things devolved after this between them. I could understand the heroine's frustration on some level, but the out-and-out anger for such a sustained amount of time just wasn't fun as a reader. I like my paranormal romances to be more about the falling for each other, the fun, and the steam … not prolonged angst.

Certainly, Sasquatch is a fun element of this book! Here, he is very real and actually is very protective of the heroine; she believes she has seen this creature several times throughout her life since she was a young child. At the end of the book, we learn even more about this link between them. The scenes with him and her were so touching, especially when she was injured. I could go on and on about this book, and except for the few minor points mentioned, I enjoyed it thoroughly, especially how the author created a new and interesting plot with some excellent surprises. Recommended.

Sean and Angela

Story: After her daughters are raised, Angela (h46) heads back to college, where a chance encounter at a campus coffee shop leads her to Sean (H), who turns out to be her writing professor and a man with a mysterious secret. Their immediate connection is tested by university rules and Sean's hidden life as a wolf shifter. When Angela is gravely injured during a field trip, Sean saves her life by turning her into a wolf shifter, intertwining their destinies. As Angela navigates her new shifter reality and uncovers her own hidden heritage, she and Sean face formidable challenges if they want a future together. Hot and steamy midlife, wolf shifter romance, exploring love, adventure, transformation, and second chances.

Audio: Narrator Elle Sonali does a great job with Angela and female voices, and a very good job with Sean and other male voices. I find that Sonali is one of the better narrators that I've listened to that comes pretty close to overriding my personal preference for duet style narration where a female narrator is used to voice female voices, and a male narrator for male voices. The audio quality is good and there were no issues.