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A local bookshop employee falls hard for her polar opposite--who just happens to be an orc--in the second installment of Isabelle Taylor's Claw Haven series, perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and Ruby Dixon In Claw Haven, Alaska, monsters are real--but fated mates? Bookseller Vi Harper doesn't believe, and it's up to one smitten orc to prove otherwise in this sweet and spicy romance. Vi Harper is good at many things. Fixing problems for everyone in Claw Haven, for one. Keeping Sweethelm Bookstore running smoothly, for another. Above all, Vi is great at pretending she's got her life figured out. The truth is, she's a hot mess inside--especially when cocky, gorgeous orc Nick Wicker goads her in his infuriating way. Nick has found his mate. That's the good news. The bad: he's already blown it. Every time Nick speaks to soft-spoken, overworked bookseller Vi, she seems to hate him even more. What's a lovestruck orc to do but stress-bake and look for some way to redeem himself? Even it means joining the book club. Then a batch of apology brownies sparks one passionate night together and suddenly, sensible Vi is doing something completely out of character: offering her one-time enemy a friends-with-benefits arrangement. It's more than Nick dreamed. Phenomenal. And it won't be enough. Not until he's found a way to show her that sometimes, fate gets it exactly right...

Weary Skullstalker, Vale, is given a rest from caring for his void when he is summoned to the mortal realm and presented with an offering: a strange, soft mortal woman.He wants nothing to do with mortals, but it has been centuries since he last had an assistant. So he accepts their offering and spirits the mortal back to his increasingly needy void.It is an immediate disaster. Not only does his void mysteriously start to rot, but his new mortal gets sprayed by a magical pollen. A pollen that awakens her deepest desires...-Meek Ivy Silverpetal has been given one duty: secretly weaken the Skullstalker void so her people can march inside and bind the Skullstalker to fight for them.Ivy isn't expecting to get struck down by lust pollen. Vale insists it connects her to her deepest desires, but that isn't all: it also connects her to the void she just poisoned. The void that Vale once loved so much that it loved him right back.With the pollen in her heart and a Skullstalker's void in her head, it's impossible to do anything but fall for Vale, who gets weaker with each day. Soon she'll have to make a decision: stand with him, or let her people claim him?GIVEN is a high-heat monster romance with more steamy magic; a sentient home, and a HEA. Perfect for fans of Opal Reyne and Katee Robert. It is Book 3 of the Skullstalker Brides series but can be read as a standalone.