NYT & USAT BESTSELLING AUTHORThe bayou is about to get a whole lot hotter for Drake. This alpha dragon-shifter had all but given up on finding a mate until one practically falls into his lap.Shape-Shifter Paranormal, Science Fiction, Alien Romance, LouisianaPart of the Qurilixen WorldLength: Short Novel
This was such a wonderful book! It may be short but it sure is sweet. Michelle packed a lot in this small package. I love books set in the swamp in Louisiana. Drake is a dragon shifter living off the grid way back in the bayou. He has a couple of human friends that help keep his secret. He is from another world so he doesn’t know the ways of humans. This makes him so sweet and naive. At really serious times, the author never failed to add a bunch of humor in her unique way. That’s my favorite thing about this author. I laughed throughout the whole book. If you enjoy audiobooks, check out this one. The narrator does an excellent Cajun accent.
My favourite dragonshifters are back!!!!!! This is a spin off the wonderful Dragon Lords, set in the modern day. It’s essentially a prequel, showing how the ports in the “later” books were first discovered and brides were found on Earth!
Drake is fed up of being told on the ruling royal families can find their brides via the portal. The new princess keeps hopping back and forth through the portal back to Earth and after one such occasion he slips through behind her!! Fast forward a few years Earth time and Drake is living in the Louisiana Bayou, being looked after by friendly natives who have adopted him as a Cajun!!!
Lori is a photographer and staying at a local hotel and interested in taking shots of the Bayou. When out with Big Daddy, her guide, he sadly dies and she’s left in a bit of a pickle!! Enter her slightly terrifying hero, Drake! He’s gorgeous, talks a little weird and for some reason keeps trying to claim he’s Cajun!! What follows is a mad romp through the bayou with nefarious hunters, comical neighbours and passionate encounters.
I was so sucked into this story and my only disappointment was that it was way too short! Brilliantly evocative descriptive narrative, with a melt your heart hero and equally lovable heroine. Brilliant fish out of water premise and I loved the depiction of New Orleans as a den of sickness that has to be fought through from the portal!!!
The perfect distraction for long drives.
I found myself needing to take my mind off things last week as I rushed my dog from one vet to the emergency animal hospital. Stranded with the Cajun was the perfect distraction to keep me occupied and ease my worries. I was particularly distracted by the initiation rituals performed to initiate Drake as a Cajun 🙂
I received this book for Free to Give My True & Honest Review & I brought the audio book as well
This is my first book by Michelle M Pillow & it was enjoyable with some humorous aspects.
Where Dragon Shifter Dimosthenis from the Planet Qurilixen & he decides to risk the life as he knows it by sneaking out through the portal that the Royal Family’s Human Wives go out to visit their family & that’s what he does & enters into the French District of New Orleans. But he then discovered a small Cajun village, where he rescued the life of Ursa a Widow who was at the end of her tether & then other members of the area like the police chief & they KNOW his Real Name & his Species & that’s why they changed his name to ‘Drake’
But it’s when Photographer Lori is out in the swamps with ‘Big Daddy’ to take photos of the Alligators & this Lizard Man she heard about & this is when her & Drake’s lives turnaround.
And this is when we see the humorous vocabulary that is coming from Drake towards Lori his Lifemate
Emotionally thrilling roller coaster adventure filled with dangerous and engaging charters, witty banter, heart racing twists and dangerous turns. An edge of your seat exciting adventure from beginning to end.
Fun short alien/dragon shifter romance! Drake is tired of waiting on a mate, so he takes it upon himself to jump through a portal that hopefully will lead him to a mate. Lori is stranded in the bayou, but luckily for her, Drake shows up. Fun banter, cute and steamy connection! More character development would’ve been good, but still liked both Drake and Lori. Entertaining romance!
Lori is stranded in the Louisiana bayou, she’s surrounded alligators intent on making her a crunchy snack. Drake is a dragon shifter, he snuck through the portal that only the qurilixen princes are allowed to travel through. He looking for a bride and earth females arent easy to find out in the bayou. When Lori needs saving Drake is there, but a dragon?? In the bayou?? Luckily for her he turns into a hotter than hot man who can drive her wild.
This is a witty and steamy shifter romance with a happily ever after ending.
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Fun read, well written with enough twists and turns to keep you coming back for more. Especially enjoyed the ending in this book, looking forward to seeing where the next book in the series takes us!
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Bayou Love
Michelle M. Pillow’s fourth book in her ‘Captured by a Dragon Shifter’ series has got the waters steaming hot in the Bayou. Drake and Lori, the main characters, have that instant love connection going on only Lori can’t figure that out yet. Drake left his home planet a few years ago to come to earth to find a mate. When he rescues Lori from alligators in the swamp, he knows he has met his true mate. The adventures these two share are exciting and breathtaking. Highly recommended and definitely a MUST read!
Now this is a book that I was able to really sink my teeth in to. I was sucked right into the story and it is hot! I cannot stress how good this book was and I cannot wait to read more by this author! She knows how to write! This is a must read!
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I really loved this fast-paced contemporary romance, a spinoff story from Pillow’s sexy sci-fi Qurilixen books. I raced through the read, enjoying every word of the story. This series is about Qurilixen dragon-shifter men finding their mates in our modern Earth, and Stranded with the Cajun is a really fun adventure about a shifter who’s living in the swamp. Being somewhat dragon-like, he quite fits in there. The insta-love on Drake’s part is quite normal for dragon-shifters, so the story is about Lori coming to terms with her own feelings. The focus of the story is definitely more on the outward events, but Pillow ties all the bits of the story together to create a delightful escapist read.
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The third book in the Captured by a Dragon-Shifter series a well written story with a very good storyline. Alpha male dragon shifter, Drake/Dimosthenis came to Earth against the wishes of the dragon princes of his world by sneaking through a Royal portal. Lori Johnston gets stranded on the Louisiana bayou at night surrounded after her guide has a heart attack, she is rescued by Drake. This story has suspense, drama, danger, villains, a surprise at the end, and romance. I would recommend.
Drake, a Draig shifter, finds his mate in this short sweet read. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Into the Swamps . . .
I really enjoyed this series. In this one, Drake has been longing for a mate for a very long time. In desperation, he has decides to sneak through a portal to go to Earth, looking for a bride. He arrives in New Orleans and is befriended by the people living in the swamplands. He acclimated right away to being there because it felt similar to his original home.
Lori is a travel journalist needing to write a cover story, so she heads for Louisiana. She was heading into the bayou when her guide suddenly dies. Drake finds her, her guide dead from a heart attack, and he gets her back to his cabin. Will she fall for the lonely dragon? Will she accept him as her mate?
This book 3 in the Captured by a Dragon-Shifter Book Series is an interesting, steamy, standalone shifter Romance with a rough, rugged and irresistibly sexy alpha male and sassy female. This very well written book has unique characters that are well crafted with good histories and personalities. This is an entertaining story with good depth and world construction. The characters in this book are well written with problems that they resolve and the characters evolve throughout the story.
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Now we have dragons! Oh do we have some sexy alpha wrap your arms around and hold on tight dragons! Oh honey Miss Pillow brings it with these dragons! You get heat and a simmering feeling of just how good it really is with a dragon! Her stories are phenomenal and oh I cannot tell you enough how great this author is! Her creations are the greatest escapes with characters that you believe in and feel for! Every book this author writes is GOLD simmering in the sun shining just for you! Yes she is that good! I have followed her from the beginning and she is a magnificent storyteller and author and has given us gifts with her writings and musings LOL! Yes creative, talented, and one of the best in her genre well you have come upon a master! Come along with us and see what is going to happen with Drake and Lori and meet some others! This is going to be another fantastic series by the master Miss Michelle M. Pillow
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Stranded with the Cajun is the third book in the Captured by a Dragon-Shifter by Michelle M. Pillow.
This is a time when the Draig of the Quirilixan did not have the Galaxy Brides yet and was using a portal to Earth to potentially find brides. At the time, they were not aware of how Earth has changed so they were wary about sending men through the portal.
Drake has longed for a mate for a long time, so he has decided to make the biggest decision of his life. He snuck through the portal to Earth in hopes of finding a bride. He lands in New Orleans, Louisiana where he finally moves to the swamplands because it was the closest thing to home.
Lori is a travel journalist on a trip in Louisiana for a cover story. She was on a trip in the bayou when her tour guide suddenly dies. Luckily, she is saved by Drake.
I absolutely love the Dragon series and I am so happy to read more books about it. This was fantastic and I absolutely enjoyed it! Michelle, you always blow my mind! I can’t wait for more.
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I usually love Michelle’s Qurilixen World Novels but somehow this one did not meet the high expectations that I have come to expect. I cannot really put my finger on it, but it seemed a little underwhelming. The storyline was slight and the characters not as well rounded as usual. It was still an enjoyable read but not one of Michelle’s best.
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Compared to Michelle’s other books, this one seemed too quick and had little story. It went from girl meeting hero to falling in love with hero and staying with him in a short time span. There really wasn’t much of an in between story. Spoiler Alert…
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There was nothing about What happened when Drake came through the portal, or how he came to be living in the swamp, nothing about his back story at all.
I’m hoping the other books have a bit more depth because Michelle is an author I continually read.
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This was a riveting read that I thoroughly enjoyed and I am sure other will enjoy
Stranded with the Cajun was a simply splendid read that I enjoyed thoroughly from start to finish, Lori Johnson is a travelling photo journalist that has been doing news pieces in the Bayou.
On the tour her guide is killed and she finds herself stranded in the center of alligator central each of them happy to take a nip out of her somewhere juicy, she is saved by the legend himself Bayou Lizard Man Drake who is also known as Dimosthenis.
After she defeats the hunter a heavily pregnant and very ticked off Lori and Drake are greeted by a group of Dragon Shifters that are used to caring for their mates in the only way they know how.
This was a wonderful read with lots of action and plenty of larger-than-life characters.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the book and look forward to reading any future publications; keep up all the great writing.