She’s unready to face her past, but she may have no choice.

It may be her best friend who gets surprisingly accurate hunches about the future, but Chloe just  knows something big –and bad—is about to happen. She telepathically communicates with animals and shape-shifters, but her growing psychic abilities are beginning to scare her. She suspects her mother also had abilities, and when those powers grew beyond her control, she left her daughter and husband when Chloe was only ten.

Despite her worries, she won’t let anything interrupt her trip to Scotland to meet her shape-shifter boyfriend’s family. Meeting Jorge’s close-knit family and spending the Holidays with them is worry enough!

When his sister goes missing, her disappearance is linked to a shadowy organization that knows exactly how to hide her from her shape-shifting relatives’ tracking ability. What they don’t count on is Chloe’s psychic gift.

In the rush to find Jorge’s sister, Chloe loses control of her ability and accidentally harms an animal’s psyche. Ridden with guilt, she’s afraid her ability just might destroy her relationship with Jorge. She isn’t ready to find her mother and face her past, but she may not have a choice if she wants to ensure she never harms anyone again.

I never got the chance to read the first installment of Katya Armock’s Hidden Lines series but so far To Growl Or To Groan is a good read.

Chloe is the kind of heroine I love. She has attitude, and a strong sense of right and wrong. In To Growl Or To Groan, Chloe finds herself faced with new problems after her psychic abilities start acting up on her and she has the added stress of meeting her boyfriends parents. While all this is going on Jorge, Chloe’s jaguar shapeshifting boyfriend is trying to help Chloe with her problems and deal with the disappearance of his sister.

To Growl Or To Groan was a decent book. I am not the biggest fan of shapeshifter books personally but I did enjoy the interplay between the characters and especially the interactions between Chloe and her pets. The sex scenes in To Growl Or To Groan were steamy as ever and believable of two people in love and in a relationship. A plus in my opinion.

Overall the storyline in To Growl Or To Groan is very well written and begins to bring the reader even further into the world of Hidden Lines. If you like shapeshifters, some sexy romance, and a good mystery as well then I would defiantly recommend To Growl Or To Groan.