Before the Moon Rises by Catherine Bybee

Published By: Wild Rose Press
Genre: Contemporary Paranormal Romance
Release Date: 22 March 2012
Provided By: Myself
Series: Ritter Werewolves

After a twelve-hour shift in a busy emergency room, Janet O’Brien is beat. Her last patient arrives unconscious and naked. She’s lead to believe he’s a psyche patient off his meds. However, once he awakens, Janet is charmed by his million-dollar smile and agrees to give him a ride home.


Werewolf, Max Ritter notices the sassy nurse when he wakes after a night under the full moon. Unfortunately, his archrival is drawn to Janet as well. In order to keep her out of harm's way, he opts to keep her close. When the chemistry between them sparks, Max discovers a completely new reason to keep Janet safe.

- My Review -

As a werewolf you know when you have met the one. For Max Ritter, his family has long been able to choose their destinies as werewolves. And when he sees the lives of innocent women being endangered by a rouge werewolf he takes it into his own hands to take that man/wolf down. Catherine Bybee, known for her Not Quite and Weekend Bride series, takes a stab at paranormal romance in these short Ritter Werewolves books. The first in the series, Before the Moon Rises is a novella that introduces you to the Ritter clan and how these werewolves find their mates.

Janet O'Brien, an emergency room nurse, is typically the one stopping the life threatening situations. But when she gets trapped in a dangerous situation, that she has no training to deal with she must trust her life into the hands of her psychotic patient  With nothing to do except trust Max, Janet must allow this security expert to protect her life, and possibly her heart. Max, who is currently in phase due to the effects of a full moon, must make sure that both Janet and himself make it out of the rouge werewolves grasps together. With a budding relationship, a dangerous situation, and the possibility of her being his mate, Max must protect Janet with his life.

An interesting and in depth novella, Before the Moon Rises allows you get a glimpse of the Ritter clan without having to spend hours in front of the book. Catherine Bybee in this short novel, gives the reader all the romance and action of a full length book, but with less pages. The second book in the Ritter Werewolves series, is from the perspective of Max's brother, Richard, called Embracing the Wolf, and is currently published.

- Links -

Goodreads | Catherine Bybee