Patricia Briggs has a talent for writing characters who seem realistic, even if the setting is other worldy.

Hunting Ground is the second book in her Alpha & Omega series. A spin off of her popular Mercy Thompson novels, we are taken deeper into the world of werewolves than ever before.

Previously in Cry Wolf, we met Anna. In her early 20's, she was forced to the Change and suffers for years before 200 year old Charles Cornick meets her. She is saved and, it turns out, so is he. Charles is only second to his father in power and dominance. Under his cold facade, he has a raging beast. And Anna is Beauty to his beast. Or should I say "music." As an Omega wolf, she soothes him in a way that he has never experienced in all his long life.

The second novel focuses on a conference of Alpha European werewolf leaders. Charles' father, the Marrok, is leader of the North American werewolves. With the advent of so much forensic technology, he decides that they have to come out to the public before someone else outs them.