Running with the Werewolf by Laurie London [Review]

Running with the Werewolf (Darkaway Island #1) by Laurie London
Format: ebook
Source: provided for review
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Date read: November 15, 2025

Darkaway Island
1. Running with the Werewolf - Kindle

Laurie London
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Welcome to Darkaway Island: A destination resort for supernaturals.
Where Monsters Come to Play!

Daphne Dupree needed to get out of town after things at work got a little…complicated. The last thing she expected when she filled out a silly online quiz was winning a singles trip to paradise. Too good to be true? Probably.

Turns out, Darkaway Island is more than a little strange. People in costumes. Large dogs running around unleashed. And there’s a lot of crazy talk about monsters.

But the weirdest of all is that she seems to be part of a…dating contest.

The prize: a smoking-hot cowboy with an unhealthy fixation on the moon.

Travis Monroe wasn’t planning to stay long on the island. As the grumpy werewolf star of a supernatural soap opera, all he wants is to give his newly-inherited ranch to his sister then fly back to the set on his private plane.

Trouble is, if he isn’t mated by the White Wolf Moon, the ranch reverts to a half-brother he just met, and his sister loses everything.

Solution: Find a mate, sign over the property, break up. Falling in love isn’t in the script.

As Travis and Daphne spend time together on group dates and one-on-ones, his feelings for her grow, extending far beyond duty to his family. And she learns he’s more—much more—than just fangs and fur.

But a rival pack is stirring up trouble, and Daphne is hiding a secret of her own.

Do Travis and Daphne find love in paradise only to lose it in the end?

Thoughts on Running with the Werewolf: Daphne's found herself in a bit of a pickle. After being (grossly) propositioned by her boss, she accidentally came into possession of some paperwork that puts the company she works for in a bad spot. Then her direct supervisor had a car "accident" and now Daphne's looking for a place to lay low while the feds investigate. Winning a trip to remote Darkaway Island is perfect timing (if not the tiniest bit suspicious), but the island checks out and Daphne needs a place to hide and now she's hanging out on an island.

An island that happens to be a supernatural getaway destination. Daphne, as it turns out, wasn't aware that supernaturals were real and the trip she won was actually as a contestant on a dating reality show.

Yeah, it's complicated. Especially since the bachelor she's vying for is a wolf. Who needs to be mated in a fairly short frame of time. And he's a star on a supernatural show. Let's just say that being interrupted while trying to spend time together is A THING (sometimes it's unintentional, BUT STILL!) and both Daphne and Travis have to deal with that.

MEANWHILE, there's potential sabotage going on behind the scenes of the show, Daphne's boss is really unhappy about her turning him down (and turning the company in), and a book of dark magic seems to have formed an attachment to her. As books of dark magic sometimes do.

A little danger, a rival pack with a stake in the game, a supernatural town that welcomes a human, a wolf who isn't looking for love (but that's not going to stop anything), and a lady who had no ideas monsters were real before she ended up on an island full of them. GOOD STUFF!