Title: Mate To Curves Book One
Author: D.V. Fischer
Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy
Release Date: 31st August 2023
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All shifters are pack-less. A few well-snapped photos and a crazy and persistent journalist later, packs no longer exist. It’s to keep their race alive, but shifters like Avani have to get out their aggression somewhere. She’s an alpha with something to prove, and even though she can’t lead a pack, she can still be the best fighter at the nearest shifter underground fight club. What she wasn’t expecting was to find that her mate owned it.
REVIEW
In this shifter world there are no packs anymore. It's a difficult decision made to keep the existence and freedom of shifters. However there are still humans/people lurking on the outskirts of the shifter world intent on proving they exist and wanting to reveal them to everyone in the world, wanting to put an end to the species altogether, one such man is reporter Gary Spelling, obviously detested by the shifter population.
All this keeping under the radar leaves shifters, particularly Alpha's a need to burn off energy. No longer able to shift and run in packs, or even live in packs they need an alternative.
Cade former Alpha of the Glacier Mountain Pack provides a suitable option, an underground fighting club. Though Cade used to take part in the fights in the early days of the club now he just sits at the bar talking with sometimes bartender Cruz. Cade watches the room and is around to handle the general arguments that take place in a bar as well as any fighting that overspills from the ring.
The rules of the ring are, well just one rule no shifting at all, not even partially! The shifters fight in human form until one is literally knocked out or taps out. There's a healer, Aaron on hand to help with injuries as even shifters need help sometimes after a fight in the ring!!
When Avani walks in she notes she smells like blood sweat & tears, three of her favourite things! Avani is an Alpha and refuses to conform to a human job so she fights in clubs like this for money. Avani is at this club as she had to move on from her last one as it had got to the stage where no shifter wanted to fight her. Avani fought well and was used to winning, unfortunately a new club means opponents she hasn't had a chance to see fight or work out their weaknesses. Its finally Avani's turn to fight, her opponent is built like a house and called Kye. Kye wins the fight leaving Avani making her way to the bar to drink something strong to anaesthetise some of her pain. That's where Cade finds himself drawn to her and when she eventually returns his gaze on his Alpha command he immediately knows she is his mate. Avani wants nothing to do with a mate bond and the potential issues it could draw to them but Cade appeals to the fighter/earner in Avani saying if she comes back the following day he will show her why she lost the fight to Kye and more importantly how to beat him in the next fight.
Avani coerces her friend and fellow shifter Joyce to go to the fight club the next evening. It seems the mate bond is not on board with the whole single shifters, no packs rule as it's not long before Joyce finds herself locking eyes with her own mate.
With Cade & Avani together and Joyce locking eyes with her mate you might think theres going to be a straight forward happy ending, the one and only Gary Spelling pops up complete with camera at a rather unfortunate moment capturing Avani as her shifter.
This is a really good plot that I can see and hope is built on to create a nice lengthy shifter series. Theres certainly some steamy adult scenes within but it's all within the book storyline.
Summing up Wow! This is a great steamy start to a potentially sizzler of a series, loved it! When can I read more?
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