Vixen

A Dark Protectors/Rebels Novella (1001 Dark Nights)

By: Rebecca Zanetti

Narrated by: Stella Bloom

Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti comes a story in her Dark Protectors/Rebels series...

Tabi Rusko has a simple to-do list: Rob a bank, steal a recording, set up a lucrative factory, and survive the assassins on her tail. Sure, she’s a demoness with the cunning and instincts that come with her species, but she’s always spent more time exploring than training, and her fighting skills are okay at best. One sexy man, a human cop no less, is responsible for her being stuck in a small hick town and forced into a human anger-management group that’s crazier than her. To make matters worse, his dangerous blue eyes and hard body leave her breathless and ready to rumble, and his overbearing attitude is a challenge a demoness can’t refuse.

Evan O’Connell just wants to enjoy his time out of the military by policing a small town and hopefully pulling cats from trees and helping old ladies cross the street before he succumbs to the disease plaguing him. The last thing he needs is a stunning, too sexy, pain in the butt blonde casing his bank and causing a ruckus everywhere she goes. There’s something different about her that he can’t figure out, and when she offers him immortality in exchange for her freedom, he discovers that isn’t enough. One touch of her, a whirlwind beyond his imagination, and he wants the Vixen to be his forever, as soon as he takes care of the centuries old killers on her tail.

**Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new listeners, it’s an introduction to an author’s world. And for fans, it’s a bonus book in the author’s series. We hope you'll enjoy each one as much as we do.**

©2020 Rebecca Zanetti. Foreword © 2014 by M. J. Rose. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Maybe if I’d started at the beginning

This is advertised as a sampler for those uninitiated to the series, but for me it convinced me to pass.
I was lost as multiple characters from the series popped in or were name dropped, along with rapid fire introductions of vampires, shifters, demons and some sort of “other” humans. Meanwhile, the premise for the action and danger elements was just sort of plunked down in between the instant attraction and clunky sex (did he really say he wanted to play with her tatas?).

“He threatened what’s mine; I’m okay with that” (that being him as a former lawman now killing)
The value of this novella was to give a sense of the alpha-canoe MMC and TSTL FMC character types. Here, she’s a demoness and he’s an unaware human… yet she’s the one who doesn’t bother to think thru the ramifications of transforming him. Then she’s miffed because he embraces the auto-mate-bond and his newly pumped up alpha-strength. It wasn’t terrible, but the series priority seems to put the paranomal plot dead last, behind bossy alphas and lusty bimbos.

🌻This could have been a great full length novel!🌻

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻V from Kansas🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

This story had so much potential. The characters were great and the storyline had several moments of humor, mixed in with the drama and romance. I loved the hero, who was an enhanced male and a small town cop. He was a former Navy Seal so “bad ass” was in his nature. This group of characters, who were made up of immortals, mates and humans, all centered around an court ordered Anger Management Group.

I enjoyed the short story but can’t help but wonder how much better it could have been as a full length Novel. It’s really too bad because there was great push and pull between the Hero and Heroine and their story could have been so much more!☹️