"Do not push me, human." 
 "I'll push you every bit much as you've pushed me." 
 Sophie met Nicholas through a vision, while she was reading runes and she was concentrating on her near future. Nicholas was in a middle of a battle across the Atlantic, when he felt that someone was looking at him. Scared Sophie threw the stones away and the vision scattered. 
 Obviously the two of them did not have the best beginning in their relationship. 
 Things do not improve later on when Sophie travels at the border between England and Wales to try to be the owner of a spooky house that belonged to the man who saved her as a child and she meets Nicholas again face to face this time. 
 *	Nicholas does not trust Sophie. 
 *	Sophie does not like Nicholas. 
 *	Nicholas keeps ordering around Sophie. 
 *	Sophie keeps pushing away Nicholas. 
 And suddenly and without thinking, they kiss. After that they cannot keep their hands and their mouths off each other. 
 Of course there will be "ordering around" and "pushing away" throughout the book, but there will be also sexual tension and mating tension. 
 I just love it when a Wyr starts the mating process without realizing it and everybody is wondering what is wrong with him, because suddenly the Wyr becomes agitated, highly possessive and completely focused on his female. 
 The secondary characters are very interesting in this book: Nicholas's comrades who just want to go back home to Lyonesse and feel safe, the highly magical Morgan who is the lackey of the cruel Light Queen Isabeu, Robin the puck and more monsters like deadly Hounds and lycanthropes. 
 Moonshadow is a spinoff of Elder Races. There are two main differences between the two series: 
 a)	The action takes place in England instead of USA, 
 b)	The characters do not belong to a particular Elder Race. They are mostly outcasts, partly Elder Race, partly human: 
 -Sophie is described as "mostly human" and "highly magical". We will find out at some point what she is partly. 
 -Nicholas is almost a Wyr. Part man and part leopard and also "highly magical" 
 - Nicholas' friends are ABOMINATIONS, demons, challenging, impure, god's monsters and part of the Dark Court: One is partly Gargoyle, two are dhampyres (the result of a union between a half-breed Fae or Elf and a human who is almost vampire), one is partly medusa, the rest have Wyr blood but they are not fully Wyr. 
 Thea Harrison is taking a break from Dragos and Pia, their children and their friends - although the book takes place in the same world. I am so happy because she has created once more an awesome new adventure that blew my mind. 
 I know that this is supposed to be a trilogy, but I strongly believe that THREE BOOKS ARE NOT ENOUGH.