• Paperback: 384 pages
• Sharon Ashwood’s Website
• Publisher: Signet (July 6, 2010)
• List Price: $7.99 US/$9.99 CDN
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451230736
• ISBN-13: 978-0451230737

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Faced with a custody battle for her daughter, monster-killer Ashe Carver has hung up her stakes and taken a job at the public library. But then after centuries guarding a supernatural prison, the dashing Captain Reynard strides into her world. He has only weeks to live unless Ashe finds the thief who took his soul-and he’s too drop-dead gorgeous to die…

Unchained is the third novel in Sharon Ashwood’s Dark Forgotten Series, this time focusing on Captain Reynard. Captain Reynard works in the Castle, the Supernatural Prison. Though he works as a Guard, he basically is a prisoner himself. When he was taken to the Castle, his soul was taken & placed in an Urn…but now that Urn has been stolen & the further away Reynard is from him, the shorter his life span becomes.

Ashe Carver is a widow who met Reynard while helping her sister in the Castle, after retiring as a monster slayer. But the monsters keep on coming & Ashe can’t seem to stop, until it possibly costs her the custody of her daughter. Together Ashe & Reynard must find his soul & keep Ashe’s daughter safe.

What more can I say but “wow”! Sharon Ashwood not only captured a working single mother striving to provide for her daughter & keep her safe, but filled this book with action! Sharon Ashwood writes a world that is not only something from your worst nightmares (eek! bunny!) but a world thats filled with a team of people keeping the world safe for everyone.

I loved that Ashe was a widow with a daughter, it’s different & it worked but I would have loved to seen more interaction between Reynard & Ashe’s daughter, especially towards the end. And I have to say Ashe is one kick ass woman, both as a mom & as a monster slayer…she is passionate about everything in her life.

Thought Reynard & Ashe are the main characters, I fell in love with a secondary character. Miru-Kai, a Dark Fae Prince who is locked up in the Castle, you had to feel for him & understand some of his actions & why he did them. There is also appearances from some of the previous characters in books 1 & 2, which I loved.

If you are looking for an action packed PR, pick up Unchained.