A cat, a demon and a bear. Oh my.
Jericho Dark Walker is a Bear, born to shift into both an animal’s and man’s form. He’s second in command to the mixed group of shifters living in the Great Forest. For years it had been his dream to see his clan reintroduced to the land of their ancestors. But now that he’s back he finds himself restless, unable to find joy in even the simplest back scratch or hive of honey. The female shifters offer little challenge, more than eager to bed the Great Clan’s beta, and with everyone getting along, there’s little more for him to do than break up the rare fight.
When an opportunity arrives to represent the clan and work with the athmae to oust an evil plaguing the outer edge of the Great Forest, he gratefully volunteers. The alpha’s brother has mated with an athmae—a demon—so Jericho thinks he knows what to expect. But his new partner is anything but typical. The athmae assigned to work with him is a male demon as large as Jericho, and just as deadly. No sex demon, but a hunter with the instincts of a true predator. So why is Jericho so taken with the male, when he has only ever felt desire for a female?
And why, when they rescue an annoying, sexy cat shifter from certain death, do his instincts scream at him to claim both the feline female and the demon as his own? Bears don’t mate outside their species, yet everything inside Jericho pushes him to do just that. A cat, a demon and a bear. Oh my.
Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of dubious consent, bondage, M/M intimacy, and M/M/F loving.
Publisher's Note: This book has previously been released by Pride Publishing. It has been revised and re-edited for re-release.
General Release Date: 31st May 2016
He just didn’t think he could do it anymore. A fight he could handle. Spurting blood, broken bones, hell, even a three-way with the Loren sisters. But this…watching the wolves, foxes and bears play soccer together. It was unnatural.
“Where are the fucking cats when you need them?” Jericho muttered, not surprised no one answered, engrossed in the game.
Not even a year ago, he’d been part of the outcast Red Wolf Clan. Before the Great Forest had been united, clan wars had ripped the shifter alliance apart. Anyone not a silver wolf had been forced to leave. Jericho’s alpha, Rudra, had rallied the red wolves and accepted anyone into her clan who’d wanted revenge. Bears, foxes, wolves—it hadn’t mattered. She’d intended to bring them all back to where they belonged. And then the fool woman had gone and mated Fenris—nephew to their enemy’s alpha. Prior alpha, he corrected himself, now that Fenris and Rudra ruled the clan.
And Jericho’s life had gone straight to hell.
When he’d envisioned peace, he’d never thought about how boring it might be. Getting along offered everyone the easy life in the Great Forest. It meant fresh honey, trees to scratch and a plenitude of women from which he might find a mate.
The horror of it all made him sick to his stomach.
“Score!” Someone kicked a goal, and the clan went wild.
Apparently it was too much to ask half the clan to grow incensed at the loss and beat the shit out of the winners. Instead, they smiled and laughed as they took the defeat with good-natured cheer.
It was enough to drive Jericho to drink.
He left the cheering idiots behind before they broke into a round of Kumbaya and headed out to replace the guards patrolling the outer edge of the clan’s keep. For the most part, things had remained quiet since peace had settled over the Great Forest. Rudra and Fenris ruled together, in harmony. But his alphas weren’t counting on the calm lasting forever.
“Gibson, take a break. I’ve got this.”
The brown fox smiled and raced away after rendering a half-hearted salute.
Jericho waited until the fox had left before venturing deeper into the forest. He couldn’t say why, but lately he’d been waking unable to remember his dreams, an odd sense of foreboding hanging around his neck like a curse.
Caffeine addict, boy referee, and romance aficionado, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Harte has over 100 books published with more constantly on the way. She’s a confessed bibliophile and devotee of action movies. Whether hiking in Central Oregon, biking around town, or hanging at the local tea shop, she’s constantly plotting to give everyone a happily ever after. Visit Marie's website and fall in love.
Reviewed by Inked Rainbow Reads
This book is packed full of adventure while they all search for the evil that plagues them. It is so much fun to see what Jericho, Seino, and Anya get up too...I really believe that Marie Harte has a...
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Reviewed by Long and Short Reviews
I have to be honest, I adored Jericho’s character...The paranormal world was fresh and I thought the author did an excellent job of describing it without any info-dumps or cluttering up the progr...
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