Kate Daniels is the one with the sword, and she is the reason I started these reading these books.
Of course he tries to protect the one with the sword when she will let him, and not being stupid she does count on him when things go pear shaped. When Curan is not tearing enemies to bloody little pieces, he has the patience to teach his foster daughter to differentiate between wants and needs, and to ask for what she needs like an appeals brief. Except unlike senators he doesn't send people to war, when war is required he puts his considerable self on the line for his people. He also has the mind of a lawyer and the instincts of a five term senator. The one with claws transforms into about a half ton of were lion. But I enjoy the books and talking about them. The stories have interwoven plot lines and there are no filler characters, Each character deserves a description and discussing the plots lead to major spoilers. I know why so many readers review these books by just saying "This is a great book". Needless to say I love this series and these characters who are strong enough to have equally strong friends. As usual Renee Raudman goes from an intelligent strong female character, to a growly male Curan, to an even more growly Jim, so smoothly that the listener is not jarred once.
And moving to suburbia has pitfalls of its own. Even the Lion of Atlanta, and the daughter of Evil (she does not take after her father) have bills to pay.
Her former employers the Mercenary Guild are willing, if not happy, to hire them both. Being a mercenary and skilled swords woman, she has mad job skills. Thank goodness his wife's problems are quite interesting. Curan may not have the title of Beast Lord, but it is more than a title it is what he is, and leaving left a hole. So leaving the Pack that he spent years forming and supporting was not a deal breaker to keep both it and Kate safe from a great Evil. The Pack repaid his work by not fully accepting his human wife, (well they kept challenging her to duels to the death for leadership of the Pack while he was in a coma, so that's less than accepting). In the early books we learn that Curan formed the Atlanta pack of different shape shifters because as a youngster his family was torn apart by a band of loupes, shape shifters who have gone crazy. Goodness, many authors can't keep their characters within their original personalities within one book, much less eight. Not only does the story arc keep climbing over all eight books without a stutter, the characters grow and change from book one to book eight, and still remain remain consistent. While waiting for this book I listened to all seven of the early ones from the beginning. I can think of only one other series which develops the overall story without once tripping over earlier plot lines, and this series is flawless.
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