A special forces team in the countryside of Tajikistan when they came across a girl in the middle of an abattoir of dead men... the girl was was a new shifter, and only by accident, they found that Angelo, the big burly guy in the SF Team, was able to calm her down, else she'll slice and dice anyone near her. Whisked back to the states on priority transport, practically in Angelo's lap, DCO eventually learned that the girl was Minka, and she escaped from a lab within a couple days' walk where she was found, and she can speak English, Tajik, and Russian just fine. After a bit of training and exposure to DCO operatives (and form a pretty permanent bond with Angelo), Minka and Angelo were reunited with the SF team along with some other shifters from DCO to track down and attack the lab in hopes of capturing the two doctors...
Minka basically described her rage (which triggers her shifting) as a monster inside, and it was after much coaching at DCO that she finally learned how to control her shifting and learn how to tap her abilities at will. My problem with this novel is "it just happens" that Angelo can calm her down, and it wasn't explained if Angelo has any special abilities himself (as far as this book is concerned, he's not a shifter) and given the size of the final battle there didn't seem to be enough assets in place.
Primary Plot: a violent and new shifter was discovered, and only one man can calm her. Now they need to find the evil lab that created her...
Trope: woman in peril, military, shifter
Overall Rating: 4/5
