The stand alone first title in a brand-new shifter trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Vivian Arend. Get mated—or else! When their meddling, match-making family patriarch lays down the law, Giles Borealis’ three polar bear shifter grandsons agree to follow his edict. Only James, Alex and Cooper each have a vastly different plan in mind to deal with their impending mating fevers. Will any of them be able to fight fate? Spoiler: not likely! First up: James, the youngest of the brothers… He’s going to accept his fate—but only with the woman he chooses! James Borealis figures if he has to get mated, it should be with someone he already knows and cares about—his best friend Kaylee. But when the mating fever hits, she’s still stuck in friendshipland while he’s ready to move all the way to true love and forever. Kaylee has heard about polar bear mating fever, but while James has held the starring role in her fantasies for a long time, she’s not about to leap into a permanent relationship that’s all wrong for him. He’s the PR powerhouse for Borealis Gems while she’s a quiet bobcat shifter with massive family baggage. He loves the spotlight; she wants to hide in quiet corners. But mating fever knows best, and when the storm settles, there’s no use in arguing with a polar bear’s choice. Keywords: Canadian Author, paranormal, bear shifter, alpha hero, fated mates, cat shifter For readers who enjoy Carrie Ann Ryan, Lauren Dane, Eve Langlais, Jennifer Ashley, and Cynthia Eden.

Rahm Monteparse was content with his life as the alpha of the Central Valley Pack. He didn’t want, nor did he need a mate. That is until fate takes over and leads him to a woman who stirs something within him he didn’t know was there. The beast inside knows immediately that she’s meant for him. Carleeta Taiwo had her life all planned out. Everything was going well. At least it was until she met the big broody shifter who turns her world upside down and exposes a secret her family had never told her. A secret that poses a potential threat to Carleeta once she moves onto pack lands. Once the two are joined, sparks fly and nature doesn’t allow either to walk away from the other. They are bound as one. Forever. When their journey as mates begins, more secrets are uncovered as they determine how to blend their lives. Can Rahm find his path to being the mate Carleeta needs? Can Carleeta adjust to life among shifters as she’s learning to live with her family heritage? When their future is placed in jeopardy by the threat to Carleeta, how will they make it through?

Its about a love that is hard to find, but not only to find it but to fight a battle to keep that love. It is about two people trying to come to terms with the fact that theyre from two different worlds coming together and learning from each other.

Don't miss this magnificent final chapter in the breathtaking Shadow Falls series! Kylie's epic journey is about to lead her exactly where she belongs... When Kylie Galen entered Shadow Falls Camp, she left her old life behind forever and discovered a world more magical than she ever imagined. A place where your two best friends can be a witch and a vampire...and where love doesn't happen the way you'd expect. When Kylie's most powerful enemy returns to destroy her once and for all, there's only one way to stop him—to step into her full powers and make a stunning transformation that will amaze everyone around her. But her journey won't be complete until she makes one final choice...which guy to love. Should she choose the werewolf who broke her heart but will give anything to win her back, or the half Fae who ran from their attraction before they had a chance? Everything she's learned at Shadow Falls has been preparing her for this moment—when her fate will be revealed and her heart claimed forever. From author C. C. Hunter comes Chosen at Nightfall, the final book in the New York Times bestselling Shadow Falls series about a camp for paranormal teens.

**Updated to include the short story Emergence.** Everything Emma Thompson owns fits in a suitcase she moves from one roach infested motel to another. She and Jake, her five year old son who can see the future, are running from the men intent on taking him. Emma will do anything to protect him even when it means accepting the help of a stranger named Will. Jake insists she needs Will, but Emma’s never needed help before. And even though she’s learned to trust her son, it doesn’t mean she trusts Will. Mercenary Will Davenport lives in the moment. Hauling Emma to South Dakota should have been an easy job, but his employer neglected to tell him about Emma’s freaky son and the gunmen hot on her trail. Instinct tells him this job is trouble, but nothing can prepare him for Jake’s proclamation that Will is The Chosen One, who must protect Emma from the men hunting her power. A power she doesn't know she has. Will protects Emma and Jake on a cross-country chase from the men pursuing them, while struggling with memories from his past, his apprehension of Jake, and his growing attraction to Emma. Will’s overwhelming urge to protect Emma surprises him, especially since it has nothing to do with his paycheck and possibly everything to do with the tattoo Jake branded on his arm. Rich and powerful men are desperate to capture Emma, and Will must discover why before it's too late. The Chosen series: Chosen Hunted Sacrifice Redemption

Orion, a student of the Academy, a school that trains devotees of the god Aarus, is about to have his eighteenth birthday. Trained to be a Chronicler, a historian who travels from town to town documenting important events, he is looking forward to his new life after graduation. There is only one hitch: every student of the Academy who turns eighteen is required to take a turn at attempting to pull a magical sword from an obelisk. Whoever is successful must set out on a perilous quest to find and kill the False One, a mysterious being who attempted to overthrow Aarus a millennia ago. Much to everyone's surprise, and his own dismay, Orion is chosen as the next Quester and is soon sent out on his journey. He meets Cassi, a feisty young blacksmith, who joins him on his quest, and together they must face the killer Shadows who haunt the forest along the way. As they hunt for the False One, with danger around every corner, Orion knows only too well that no peer who set out on this quest before him has ever returned to tell the tale.

Pierce has been looking for his mate for over a decade and he finally found her. Unfortunately for him, so did Reed. Alexandra's on the run from her father and the friends that he tried to sell her to. She only stopped by Black River to regroup and try to make some extra cash. Things are going fine, until she witnesses two strange men turn into animals in front of her. When they start to fight for her attention, she doesn’t know what to think or how to react. When they tell her that they're her mates, will she be able to accept this new reality that she’s found herself in? Will she trust them with her secrets and eventually her heart? Pierce and Reed don’t know each other and have nothing in common except for their mate, Alexandra. When her father finally finds her, will Pierce and Reed be able to get past their differences in order to protect their mate?