Part of Shifters Unbound
First published 2016
Addison Price works a quiet shift at a nowhere diner when a stranger walks in carrying a broadsword and trouble in equal measure. He is Kendrick, a white tiger Shifter, and he has spent twenty years keeping a group of un-Collared Shifters alive and hidden from the authorities who would force them into Shiftertowns. When his people are discovered, Kendrick runs, and the road drops him in front of Addison. She has served plenty of odd drifters, but none who move like Kendrick or make her want to stand her ground instead of stepping back. Then he steps between her and something that would have hurt her, and fear stops being the right word for what she feels. Addison decides to help him, his cubs included, and what starts as a practical arrangement turns into something neither of them planned. Kendrick needs safety. Addison needs a reason to matter to someone. The cost of getting both may be higher than either can pay alone.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, adult-fiction, fantasy-romance, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, gritty, intimate, protective, suspenseful, tender
Tropes: forced-proximity, found-family, protective-hero, slow-burn-romance, strangers-to-lovers
Setting: Shiftertowns, diner
335 pages · ebook · Berkley
Content warnings: violence