Kirjahaku

Sasha doesn't want a mate. He barely even wants friends, but he's given up on trying to keep them out of his life. He's content as he is, working at the bar in Gillham and going home to his empty apartment. It's better that way, and safer-for everyone. Because Sasha has a secret, and he's already responsible for one death, and he doesn't want anything like that to happen again.Hunter has always been content with hookups and one-night stands. He's never really thought about finding his mate-until he does. Sasha is standoffish, and while Hunter wishes he were an easier man to deal with, he's ready to wait as long as he needs to in order to have him in his life. Still, when he and his team are sent on a mission in the Brazilian rainforest, he hopes that will give Sasha enough time to make a decision about them.Sasha realizes he's made a mistake by pushing Hunter away when Hunter doesn't come back from the mission. Hunter is stuck in a rainforest crawling with members of the Beasts gang, and he needs help. Will Sasha be able to help him, or will he lose Hunter before he even has him?

Sam has been living in the forest since his parents were killed and his brother taken because of what they were-unicorn shifters. He hasn't approached the wolf pack living nearby because he doesn't know if he can trust them, but when he meets a wolf at the stream and realizes they're mates, he knows he will have to get over that distrust.Frederic didn't expect to meet his mate in the forest where the pack lives, and he certainly didn't expect his mate to be a unicorn shifter. Sam is, though, and he comes with complications and problems-and Frederic is willing to take them all on.Sam is wary and doesn't know how to trust, but he hopes having the pack's help means he can finally look for his brother. He doesn't know where to start, though, so using himself as bait for the men who killed his parents sounds like a good idea.Until it doesn't.

Win is the council assassins' handler, and that means he has to keep them safe. That's not an easy thing to do when there's a group of people trying to kill them, but Win has done his best, and now they're down to only six people to eliminate before he can take care of his family. But his obsession with their safety means he doesn't have time for anything else, and that includes Graham, the assassins' cook-and his mate.Graham has suspected there was a bond between him and Win ever since he arrived at the warehouse, but since he's human, he can't be sure. He won't get any answers from Win, who spends more time in his office working than he should. If Graham wasn't there to make sure he ate and slept, he probably would have collapsed, and that's the last thing Graham wants.Graham's opportunity to find out if that bond is really present comes when the council puts Win on a forced vacation. It so happens that Graham is headed home to his parents for two weeks, and somehow, Win ends up going with him. Will that interlude be enough for Graham to get through to Win? Or will Win be unable to forget about the work waiting for him back home and ignore Graham? Will the assassins finally find out what's really happening with the people trying to kill them?

Michael has been on leave from his job as an enforcer since he was stabbed while on a mission. He feels ready to get back to work, but Jared, the Whitedell pride doctor, won't let him. He's relieved when he and two of his team members are sent on a short, easy mission-along with everyone else in the pride because he's whined about being bored for weeks. But the mission isn't as easy as Michael had thought it would be, and the biggest surprise for him is smelling his mate in the house he's supposed to check.Cooper has been stuck in the Green Hill pride mansion for close to fifteen years. His alpha is obsessed with keeping the pride members there since several of them left, and Cooper is the one paying the highest price. He's the pride's slave, and he's beaten regularly.But when he smells his mate at the front door, he knows things are about to change.Michael needs to get his mate out of that house. Cooper is stronger than most people give him credit for, and he manages to escape on his own. They both know Alpha Carter isn't going to take it kindly, though. Bonding will make sure Cooper isn't forced to go back, but Will Alpha Carter stop and acknowledge it, or will they have to find another way to keep Cooper in Whitedell?

Lance needs a vacation from DC and his job. He's lost his passion to work there now that shifters and humans have equal rights, and he's thinking about retiring, even though he's only forty-seven. Of course, that means he has to deal with the people who want him to run for president-something he has no intention of doing.Matt was only supposed to stay in Hope for a few weeks, but he ends up accepting the sheriff job, even though the station isn't even finished yet. He was looking for a change from his job as a detective anyway, and he likes Hope, the friends he has there-and the two men he just met.Monty has a lot to deal with as the only healer in Hope, but that doesn't stop him from deciding he wants to see where things go when he meets Matt and Lance. He knows being in a relationship with two men isn't usual and that it's not going to be easy, but he wants it to work.Matt, Monty, and Lance have hurdles to get over, though. Lance's job means he can't come out, especially not as being in a threesome when one of his men is a shifter. Humans still aren't accepting of them, no matter what the law says. And even though he's been thinking about retiring, Lance has to make a hard choice between the possibility of making other peoples' lives better or making his better. He has a hard time accepting the possibility of being in a throuple, but once he lets go of his fears, the stakes rise. Will Lance choose happiness over duty? Will Matt and Monty be willing to give him time to work things out? And what will happen when he is outed against his will?

Oscar hates his life, but he's too frightened to do anything about it. The last time he did the right thing-when he freed James, the bitten werewolf accused of killing the pack's alpha-his father whipped him, and he's still recovering from that. He knows he won't be able to go through that again, but when one of the conclave enforcers comes back to ask a few more questions after they arrest James, he knows he can't keep the truth to himself, no matter how fearful he is of the consequences.Ignatius wasn't sure his friend Fyfe was right when he called and asked him to make sure James really was guilty of murder, but now that he's been back with the pack interrogating witnesses again, he knows something is wrong. He gets the proof he needs when Oscar, the new alpha's son, tells him his father is behind everything. Ignatius is alone, though, so there's not much he can do. Alpha Becket won't let Oscar go, but Ignatius won't leave him behind.He'll never forgive himself if he does, conclave rules be damned.

Dorran's life could be better.He likes his job as a freelance translator, and he loves his boyfriend, but he and Eli have been fighting, and he's not sure how to solve their problems. There's nothing Dorran can do about seeing ghosts, no matter how much Eli hates it, and the situation with Eli's family isn't helping matters. Dorran wants to give Eli time to deal with his parents, but he also doesn't want to be kept a secret.Dorran temporarily forgets all about his problems when his neighbor, Emanuel, wakes him up at one in the morning and thrusts a bloody knife in his hands. Emanuel insists he didn't kill his boyfriend. Dorran believes him, but everything points to him. Dorran isn't sure he'll be able to prove Emanuel had nothing to do with the murder, not even with the help of Francis, the ghost who shares his apartment. He's going to try-there's no way he'd letting an innocent man go to jail when he might be able to help, even though that might be the last drop that ends his relationship with Eli.

Lawrence is one of the council assassins, perhaps the one who ended up with the worst ability-he's a snake shifter, and he secretes his venom even in his human form. He's never been able to eliminate it entirely from his saliva and bloodstream, and that means he's made sure to stay away from sex and hookups as much as possible-until now. When he's sent to kidnap the son of Gavin White, the man experimenting on shifters, he discovers Griffith is his mate.Griffith is a geneticist. He works for a shifter-owned company that tries to help the shifters and humans who were experimented on by the Glass Research Company. When he's kidnapped by a cute blond who tells him his father is doing the opposite-experimenting on shifters to turn them into war machines-he's horrified, and he wants to help.Lawrence has no idea what to do with the knowledge that Griffith is his mate. They can't bond, not with the venom in Lawrence's saliva, so he decides not to tell Griffith about it. He hasn't counted on Griffith's stubbornness, though, and when he has to rush to help his mate, he knows he won't be able to stay away, even though it would be the right thing to do.

Harrison is fascinated by Salomon, the demon who helped save Ilyhas and Esi's lives. He isn't sure why, but it doesn't matter since he's never going to see him again-until he does. Sal is still trying to identify the demon who cast the spell that almost killed Jadon's boyfriends, and he needs Harrison's help. Sal hates not doing things by himself, but he can't go into a human building to find the demon, not when he's obviously not human. He's not sure Harrison will find something, but he does, and much more than Sal expected. Sal's ex is the demon involved, and she's still angry with him for leaving Hell. When she locks his powers, he knows he has to follow her back to Hell, no matter how little he wants to.He hadn't counted on Harrison coming with him, though.Harrison knows he should stay home, but there's no way he's letting Sal face this without him, even though he's not going alone. Hell can be deadly for humans, but he's more focused on getting Sal's powers back-and on falling in love with him.But not only is Hell deadly, so is Shaila, Sal's ex, and she's still holding a grudge that's going get all of them killed.

Pryderi has known Nate was his mate for weeks-way too long not to tell him. But Pryderi grew up with rejection, and he isn't sure he has the courage to possibly face it again, especially coming from the man he's been falling in love with from afar and who represents his future. He's not going to gain anything by watching Nate from afar, though.Nate's world gets upended over just a few days. First Pryderi, the cute Nix he's noticed more than he likes to admit, tells him they're mates, then the brother he thought was dead for the past ten years suddenly comes back with the Beasts after him. Nate isn't sure how to deal with any of them, but Calvin has always been the center of his world, and that hasn't changed.Pryderi has a hard time getting through to Nate, who's terrified of losing him like he thought he'd lost his brother. The fact that Pryderi is working undercover in Nate's bar to try to find the last members of the Beasts still in town is making things both worse and better-and more than a little complicated.

Gabriel doesn't like his life. It's better than the one he would have if the Gillham pack hadn't rescued him from the streets, but he's working himself to the bone to make sure Alice, the woman he considers his sister, gets better opportunities than him. He realized something was eventually going to break a while ago, but he never expected that the reason for it would be his mate.Cyn is leaving behind the life he's known until now- including his parents' money, the job they'd been planning for him, and the arranged marriage they want him to enter. He doesn't know what he'll encounter when he goes to Gillham to find his cousin Noah, but it's not a cute shifter telling him they're mates. He never expected to have one, since demons don't have mates, but it's a perfect way to turn his life around.If only his mate's sister didn't hate him.

Thor needs to find someone who can grant Isaac, his best friend's boyfriend and a human, immortality. It's not something he's had to worry about before, but he wants to do this for Tryg.Cecil is running from his brother. He's been running for decades, and he's relieved to have an opportunity to stop for a while when Thor contacts him. He meets Thor and his friends in Brussels-and so does Fabrice, his brother.Cecil is used to being on the run, but he's usually alone.Not anymore.He's made Isaac immortal, and Thor and Tryg want to thank him by helping him to get rid of his brother. Fabrice is powerful, though, and none of them know exactly how much, not even Cecil.But they're going to find out.

Sky was human once. Now he's part demon, and he can't stop himself from catching fire every time he feels strongly about something. Any emotion will do-fear, shock, arousal. Being freed from the lab he'd spent almost a year in would be a good thing if he could control his new ability, but as it is, he risks setting the warehouse and the council assassins on fire, including his mate.Ulric can't say he's happy about his mate's ability to control fire, but that's mostly because Sky can't control it right now. Even though Sky pushes Ulric away, he has help and people who can teach him what to do. The problem is that when it comes to Ulric, Sky doesn't seem to be able to keep his emotions in check, and that might mean they can never be together.Ulric is ready to do everything he can to help Sky, even if it means getting burned here and there. Sky doesn't share that opinion, though, and he knows he has to learn control-or let Ulric go.

Kari is a loner. He's lived alone with his father for his entire life, and he wants that to change because his dad deserves better. That's why he's taken it upon himself to get rid of the evil men in the Allegheny forest, and he's finally managed to convince the council to put him on the team that will help the carriers obtain their freedom.Calder has been fascinated with Kari ever since Kari confessed he was the one who caused the death of Oscar, one of the council members who were abusing carriers. Kari is slippery and has kept his distance, so Calder is surprised but eager when Kari plainly tells him he wants him in his bed.Kari hasn't told Calder he's a carrier. He doesn't plan to, at least until the condom breaks and he ends up pregnant. But Kari doesn't want people to know he's a carrier, because too often carriers are protected, not sent out to save people from their abusers.Will Kari have to choose between building a family with Calder and continuing the work he's been doing for the past months? Or is there a way for him to have both?

Justin wasn't planning on moving to Gillham. He doesn't have a reason, except that his best friend has just bonded with his mate and now lives there. But when Justin helps Pryderi move, he meets Pryderi's brother, Yedley-his mate.Yedley has no idea what he's doing. He has a chance at a new life, but he doesn't know where to start until Fate takes that decision away from him and puts Justin in his path. But meeting his mate doesn't solve Yedley's problems. Justin is there for him, but Yedley still needs to come out to his parents and find his way in life. He needs to let Justin become close, even though he's still trying to get over his kidnapping and the time he spent with the Beasts, and he doesn't know how to do that.The danger the Beasts represent is still looming, and Justin is glad when his transfer request to Gillham is accepted, because it means he can be close to his mate and keep him safe. It's a new start for both him and Yedley, but they'll have to find their way around each other-and around their bond.