“Beneath Contempt” Book Review

Melody Bestia is a powerful witch, but years of abuse and neglect at the hands of her coven have held her back from meeting her full potential. Despite being the strongest of all beast tamers, Melody has not been permitted to keep any of the familiars that she bonds with. Her main role in the coven is to weaken the shifters so that the inferior members of her coven are able to claim them for their own nefarious purposes. It is a job she despises, but she is as much a slave as the shifters that are tricked into swearing their loyalty.

She gets her first taste of freedom when she is sent to Adolphus Academy, the premier beast taming school for witches who come into their majority at the age of twenty-five. But it is a false sense of freedom because Aunt Georgia has manipulated the situation to her advantage. Melody must bond with the five Apex shifters of the academy else she risks her own life. Try as she might, there is no avoiding the inevitable attraction that these strong alpha males feel toward Melody, so she must proceed with caution to protect their lives.