Baiting Ben is another short story in the Moon Pack series with potential. Amber Kell is playing with the stereotype of the paranormal genre, in particular the shapeshifter subgenre, re-adapting all of them in a gay point of view. This time is the turn of the menages between two strong alpha males who compete for the attention of a cute pretty thing. And since this is a gay romance, the cute pretty thing is an half human half werewolf redhead twink. Ben was part of an Alaskan pack, and he always thought that his mate would have been Dillon; but when his 25 birthday comes and goes without Dillon claiming him, Ben decides to leave the pack and find his mate in the big bad world. The quest is not so long, and the first time he enters the Moon pack nightclub, Thomas smells him and claims him as his mate.

Thomas is big and bad, but he is not an Alpha male; he has not the attitude of one, and it's quite clear that the one in command in their relationship will be Ben, the classic top from the bottom. The first days are perfect but then Dillon arrives pretending that Ben is his true mate... apparently Ben is part of a tri-mate bond, and Dillon and Thomas have to learn to deal with it: Ben can't choose between them, he is the pivot, and even if Thomas and Dillon don't feel attraction one for the other, they can't deny that both of them are handsome men, and it would be not an hard task to share Ben. And when Ben decides to play director for his personal porn movie, Thomas and Dillon play the role of the main characters for their little man.

This shapeshifter series by Amber Kell is not bad. Sometime play according the rule, the romance rule, allows you to write something nice and enjoyable, even if maybe not so original (but sometime when you try to be a forced original, you risk to be ridiculous or annoying); there is only one little thing that I found distracting, something I have found also in the previous book in the same series, there are here and there little typos, something a mistake in the name of the characters... nothing important, and probably with a second editing all of them would have been detected.

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This is the second in the Moon Pack series of short stories. The main characters from the first story are magic-wielding Anthony and his alpha werewolf mate, Silver. Both those characters appear here, but the story concerns Silver's second-in-command, Thomas, finding his mate.

Ben is half-werewolf and has left his former pack. He has come to Silver's club looking for a mate, and Thomas claims him. But, then former-pack member Dillon shows up to claim Ben as well. Is it possible for a werewolf to have two bonded mates? The rules change when Anthony reveals just what Ben's other half means for them all.

This story has more angst than the first, since Thomas and Dillon are very dominant concerning the more sensitive Ben. Once again, there is some hot sex, but also more tenderness. Readers get a bit more information about Kell's paranormal world and are introduced to more characters. I will definitely keep reading this series, and am looking forward to "Courting Calvin." Recommended ( )