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Once Hunted, Twice Shy by Mandy M. Roth
3.0

Penelope literally runs into Huge...with her car, but it's okay because Hugh happens to have improved healing. He's a wolf shifter, though Penelope doesn't know that. She's coming back to town after a bad breakup. She left Everlasting as a child when her parents died, taken away to live with her grandparents who found her other grandfather to be a strange man. Her grandfather runs the antique store and they come from a long line of supernatural hunters. Let's just say her grandfather's reputation proceeds him.

Once Hunted, Twice Shy was entertaining. Of course, there is some paranormal baking involved. Hugh, who normally cusses enough to make a sailor blush, is helped along with a bet to not curse by who other than the eccentric Aunt Polly. This lead to some...er, interesting choice of cuss words. Some of them were just hilarious. Penelope who tends to be colorful in her own lack of cursing is even impressed with some of the ones that the big bad alpha werewolf comes up with. 

This one is much more romance than a mystery as most of the actual action takes place off-camera. We know that as a newcomer, Penelope is under suspicion of two deaths, but that's really all we know. Two bodies found in a cove, with no real how or why until Penelope and Hugh happen upon the erstwhile murderer by complete mistake of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. As usual, they are helped along the way by the quirky and fun residents of Everlasting. Cute and light read. 

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