Blood and Briars

Paula Watts has spent weeks fighting a magical poison that’s killing shifters from the inside out.

She’s a healer, the best in Ashenmoor, but this toxin adapts faster than she can counter it, and the people she’s sworn to protect are running out of time. When the Pact assigns a bear shifter enforcer to guard her clinic, she expects a complication. She doesn’t expect Jude Cortez.

Jude doesn’t do feelings. He does perimeters, threat assessments, and controlled violence. But the stubborn, brilliant healer under his protection has a way of getting under his skin that nine feet of brown bear can’t defend against. Every late night in her clinic, every accidental touch, every argument about boundaries pulls them closer, even as the conspiracy tightens around them.

Because the poisoner isn’t some faceless enemy. She’s a grieving mother with hedge-witch training, a weaponized ley-line network, and nothing left to lose. And when the confrontation comes, Paula and Jude won’t be talking their way out of it.

Blood and Briars is Book 3 in The Ashenmoor Pact, a steamy paranormal romance series. Each book features a new couple with a complete HEA while the overarching conspiracy reaches its most dangerous point.