Joyce is a therapist. She specializes in trauma and death, and she’s good at her job. With that in mind, she can’t understand why shifters would go to an underground fight club, least of all the mate who doesn’t want her, to beat the crap out of each other. But Avani is her best friend and she drags her there anyway. It’s torture, knowing that her mate doesn’t want her, but she’s determined to get to the bottom of his pain whether he likes it or not. Aside from the rumors spread about him at the club, Kye has a trauma-filled past with a whole lot of secrets. He uses that pain to win every fight, just to feel something. But when his mate starts showing up, he heads down a downward spiral of horrible memories. He knows he can’t have her because he’s just too damaged. In order to protect her from himself, he rejects her.
Review by Twinsie Angie
I purchased this book.
I met this author at a book signing. When I saw I could get 5 novellas for a few bucks I jumped. I started this book when I was on the long drive home. The author has several novellas series (all on audio as well). I just grabbed this set and went. They are all standalones. The only issue I had was wondering why wolf packs dispersed. I am not sure if that is discussed in another book but otherwise, I just rolled with it. Packs can’t be packs. Got it!
When book 1 ended I was laughing like a crazy person. Avani and Joyce were cooking up some trouble to get Kye to claim his mate.
Book 2 begins with Joyce dressed up very sexy which is not her at all. She starts to flirt to get her mates attention and it sure did work. Kye’s grumpy and claimy self-came and said NO to her flirting but then also ran away with his wolf tail between his leg.
Joyce and Kye have a lot of steamy chemistry and then lots of step backs. They are literally perfect or each other but Kye is being stubborn. Good things Joyce is a feisty spitfire who will not give up on her mate.
These 2 were a blast to read. I loved it so much. I was excited when book 3 started to play and I saw Aaron gets a book. The healer is in need of some sexual healing himself!!
USA Today & International bestselling and two-time Iowa award-winning author DV Fischer is a mother of two very busy boys, a wife to wonderful husband, and an owner of three sock-loving German Shorthair Pointers. They also have one cat named Geralt.
Together, they live in Sheldon, Iowa.
When DV Fischer isn’t chasing after her children, she spends her time typing like a mad woman while consuming vast amounts of caffeine. Sometimes, if her husband can manage to remind her of the real world outside her office window, they hike!
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