Part of Shifters Unbound
First published 2013
Tiger has lived in Austin's Shiftertown for less than a year. Before that, he spent four decades in a cage. The humans who held him never gave him a name, a clan, or a past. He is still learning what it means to be free when a car breaks down on the road and Carly Randal steps out of it. Carly has a good job, a good life, and no reason to want anything more. Then Tiger looks at her, and she feels something shift. He is certain of one thing with absolute clarity: she is his mate. Carly has no framework for what that means. She does know what she feels, and it frightens her. As Tiger pulls Carly deeper into his world, she has to weigh everything she has built against something she never planned for. Tiger, meanwhile, is fighting on two fronts. He wants Carly. He also wants an identity, a place to belong, and a self that was taken from him before he could form it. Their connection forces both of them to decide what they are willing to risk for a love neither of them expected.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, adult-fiction, fantasy-romance, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, passionate, sensual, transformative
Tropes: fated-mates, fish-out-of-water, forced-proximity, second-chance-at-life
Setting: Austin, Shiftertown
308 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Berkley Publishing Group
Content warnings: abuse