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Fate has given Kodiak bear shifter Ralph Kaska (commonly called Alphy) a one-two punch. A Navy Seal on a mission when half his team is wiped out. While recovering less than a week later, he gets word his parents were killed and he is needed, to take custody of his younger sister and brother. To add insult to injury; no alpha wants a shifter as powerful as him, in their territory and isn’t allowed to stay longer then forty-eight hours.
Alphy makes
arrangements to stay across the border in Canada with their last known relative; a great-aunt whom he has
never met or technically spoken to. When he arrives, for the first time in his
life, his bear settles. He feels at home in the Canadian woodlands. His
great-aunt is the last of a once thriving sleuth. She offers for them to stay
permanently and proclaims him alpha. Alphy feels like things starting to come
together. But before he can put any future plans in motion, he comes across his
mate and discovers a whole new challenge.
Gale and her younger brother, Paul, are human, but after her
father died, her mother married a man who opened her and her brothers eyes to
the life of shifters and mates. She has come to learn many things in the
shifter world, like who’s an alpha, and how it is nearly unthinkable to disobey
him. However, when the alpha of their herd finds out her younger brother is
gay, he orders the family to send him away. She couldn’t have imagined her
stepdad would disobey but her
stepdad begins to pack the entire family up and make arrangements to escape the
territory. Just as they were ready to go, the enforcers took her brother out
into the woods and tried beating him to death, until her stepdad came to his rescue. Weeks later, they
were still on the run when Gale meets a man who claims she is his mate.
Excerpt:
“Miss, I’m not going to hurt you. Is everything ok?”
His voice strummed happy tingles in her belly, and
goosebumps actually broke out on her arms. She looked at his face, trying to
judge his sincerity. But with his voice and those eyes, she was a goner. She
sat there frozen, struck stupid by all his glory. Then he smiled, and she
discovered her butterflies had rocket launchers. Her breath caught in her
throat, and sweat started to bead across her upper lip and forehead. Oh no, she
was sweating. The hottest man on record and she was staring at him like some
wide-eyed loon and sweating!
“Can I open the door?” he asked her. She loved hearing
that voice. What else could she do to keep him talking?
I bet I could orgasm by just
listening to his voice. She didn’t realize she was nodding until he stood up and
flipped up the door latch to pop it open. Her mind went blank as she found
herself staring right at his lower stomach and crotch. Holy huckleberries, that’s an impressive bulge.
Cooler air lightly suctioned past her as he opened the
door. He squatted down again, placing his large hands on his bulky upper
thighs. I didn’t know they came in those
sizes. Yes, she had truly lost it. This had to be some sort of
hallucination caused from her little breakdown.
“I’m Ralph, but everyone calls me Alphy.”
Oh boy, she thought, he sounds even better without the window
hampering his voice. Bad window, bad. Her brain, seemingly out of nowhere,
clicked back on just enough to respond. “Gale,” she breathed out. She felt the
hit to the stomach from those rocket-launcher butterflies again when he gave
her a wide, bright smile. His teeth were straight and white. How do people actually get to look this
perfect?
“It’s nice to meet you. Now, can you tell me what’s
gotten you so upset so I can fix it or kick its ass?”
Her nerves got the better of her because she started
to laugh almost hysterically, and then she started to cry. She saw his face
fill with alarm.
“I’m so sorry,” she sobbed.
He leaned over and pulled her into an awkward hug. It
helped though, because as soon as his arms reached around her and held her, she
suddenly felt all right. She inhaled, filling her lungs with his rich spicy
scent. He smelled so good that she had to internally argue with herself to
exhale, giving up the erotic fragrance.
She felt the loss when he leaned back on his heels but
for only a brief moment until the abrasive skin from his palms lightly grazed
her dampened cheeks as he cupped her face with his giant hands. His thumb skimmed
over her cheek, and she automatically leaned into the pleasant feeling. She
cleared her throat and snapped out of her happy place. “Uh,” her cheeks pinked,
“my tire went flat.”
“I can fix that for you, but that can’t be the full
reason why you were crying. I can see you’ve been upset.” He had gentled his
voice to near whispering. It soothed her, and she began to calm. Gale took a
moment to remember what it was she needed, other than to be licked like a
lollipop by the muscular Adonis in front of her.
She held her breath for a few moments, then shook her
head, “If you could change my tire, that would be great. I have a spare.”
He tilted his head and rested his arms on his legs.
“Let’s take a look to see what has to be done then go from there.” He stood up
and held his hands out for hers. She threw one leg out onto the ground and
grabbed his hands, eagerly taking them, and tried to leap up but was promptly
stopped and pulled back by her seatbelt.
Damn it! She covered her face in
embarrassment. She peeked through her fingers at hearing a rich sexy laugh. The
Adonis in front of her was laughing. He squatted down and reached a colossal
arm around her and pushed the button on her seat belt, releasing her. Then he
grabbed her hands and gently pulled her out of the car.
All she could do was to mutely stare up at him as he
held her hands against his firm warm chest. His thumbs rubbed over her fingers
causing more tingles. And someone really
needs to de-arm those damn butterflies.
She managed to detach her tongue from the roof of her
mouth. “Thank you.”
“You’re more than welcome.” His voice had lowered,
rippling through to her core, provoking a shiver that galloped down her spine.
Keeping hold of her left hand, he led her around the front of the car to the
passenger side. His eyes roved over the tires as they drew around to the
passenger rear flat tire. Letting go of her hand, he knelt down and inspected
the tire, then stood up and walk back to the front passenger and made his way
around, inspecting all four tires.
His face was tight in concentration as he walked back
around to her. “I can put your spare on, but all your tires need to be replaced.
They aren’t safe for you to drive on, and I’m surprised the others aren’t flat
as well.”
Heat crept up Gale’s neck and spread into her cheeks. She
looked down at the ground and fidgeted. She felt Alphy’s body-heat as he drew
nearer and placed his hands on her shoulders rubbing her jaw-line with his
thumbs. The act drew her sight back up, and she couldn’t stop herself from
looking up into his face and falling into the soft brown depths of his eyes.
“Do you need help paying for them?”
The burn in her cheeks increased as she
struggled with what to say. Of course she couldn’t pay, or she wouldn’t have
gone this long without changing them.