Not my favorite Tessa Dare short-story. I enjoyed the eerie/gothic setting of the house-party and the search for the were-stag in the woods, but the romance itself didn't quite work for me. Cecily and Luke didn't have enough backstory besides their one kiss before he deployed to the Napoleonic Wars to make me believe in a HEA/HFN, especially when Luke is clearly suffering from depression and PTSD.

CW: drinking, gore (animal attack, killing of an animal in self-defense), wound tending