Part of Shifters Unbound
First published 2016
Rae Lyall is the first female Guardian ever chosen for her Montana Shiftertown, and not everyone is willing to accept it. The wolf Shifter barely has time to process the weight of her new role before she is sent north to train with Zander Moncrieff, a polar bear Shifter healer who lives outside the Collar system and answers to nobody. He is blunt, self-assured, and difficult. She finds him infuriating. He finds her impossible to ignore. Zander has kept himself closed off from any real connection for a long time, but Rae chips away at that distance without meaning to. She is learning her duties, pushing back against his arrogance, and trying to prove herself worthy of a position no woman has held before. Then trouble arrives back home. Rae and Zander move fast to protect Shiftertown, fighting side by side, the danger pulling them closer than either planned. The central tension is simple: two Shifters who were not looking for anything find themselves unable to walk away from each other.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, adult-fiction, fantasy-romance, contemporary-romance
Vibes: action-packed, emotional, fast-paced, intimate, romantic
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, protective-love-interest, slow-burn
Setting: Montana, Shiftertown
336 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Berkley