Joy to the Wolf: Holidays With the Shifters, #5

By Rose Bak

A wolf-shifter saying she's his fated mate? She's been there, done that, and got the divorce papers to prove it.

Joy is newly divorced and ready to start over. After her husband dumps her for his fated mate, she moves to a new town where there are other shifters around to provide support to her daughter. The little wolf shifter was always an outcast in their old pack, but in the town of Greysden, no one seems to care that what kind of shifter you are or if your mother is human.

Playboy Luc knows his party days are over the minute he runs into his mate for the first time while Christmas shopping. The curvy little human already knows all about wolf shifters and fated mates, but unfortunately, she was burned by her ex.

Joy is the only present Luc wants for Christmas. He's determined to prove to her that she's the only woman for him, and fortunately for him, her daughter is ready to help.  Can he convince her to take another chance at love?

About the "Shifters for the Holidays" series: The shifter town of Greysden is gearing up for the holidays and some of its sexiest residents are finally finding their true mates. The road to love isn't easy, but with a little help from fate and some nosy small-town matchmakers, there's a guaranteed happily ever after. If you love short and steamy standalone romances with curvy women and growly shifter men who fall fast and hard, this is the holiday series for you.

Download your copy of this instalove Christmas romance today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rose Bak
• Release date: Dec 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201976545

Rose Bak

Rose Bak has been obsessed with books since she got her first library card at age five. She is a passionate reader with an e-reader bursting with thousands of beloved books.  Rose's contemporary romance books focus on strong female characters over age 35 and the alpha males who love them. Expect a lot of steam, a little bit of snark, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

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About This Book

A wolf-shifter saying she’s his fated mate?  She’s been there, done that, and got the divorce papers to prove it.

Joy is newly divorced and ready to start over. After her husband dumps her for his fated mate, she moves to a new town where there are other shifters around to provide support to her daughter.  The little wolf shifter was always an outcast in their old pack, but in the town of Greysden no one seems to care that what kind of shifter you are or if your mother is human.

Playboy Luc knows his party days are over the minute he runs into his mate for the first time while Christmas shopping.  The curvy little human already knows all about wolf shifters and fated mates, but unfortunately she was burned by her ex. 

Joy is the only present Luc wants for Christmas.  He's determined to prove to her that she's the only woman for him, and fortunately for him, her daughter is ready to help.

Can he convince her to take another chance at love?

About the Shifters for the Holidays series:  The shifter town of Greysden is gearing up for the holidays and some of its sexiest residents are finally finding their true mates. The road to love isn't easy, but with a little help from fate and some nosy small-town matchmakers, there's a guaranteed happily ever after. If you love short and steamy standalone romances with curvy women and growly shifter men who fall fast and hard, this is the holiday series for you. 

Download your copy of this instalove Christmas romance today!

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Keep reading after the story for a special preview of Wolf Doctor, book one of the Bite-Sized Shifters series.

Dedication

For new starts and second chances at love.

Joy

How about this one, Mommy?

I glanced over towards my five-year-old daughter’s voice.  She was standing at the end of the store aisle holding up a Christmas wreath decorated with birds. It was pretty hideous, and I hid my smile.  It wasn’t exactly what I had in mind when we planned to decorate our new apartment.

Is there something more festive, like something with a Christmas design?  Like candy canes or presents? I asked.

She nodded.  I’ll get the other one.

I returned to looking for ornaments for the Christmas tree.  I was pleased to see that this store had several aisles of Christmas decorations because I’d given all of my other ornaments to one of my neighbors in Wyoming when I moved away.  I didn’t want any reminders of my ex or our life together, not after everything that had happened between us.

Honestly, I was surprised that a shifter town like Greysden had embraced Christmas.  There were several holiday events and every house and business in town was decorated for the holiday. The pack my ex-husband was in mostly ignored Christmas as a human thing.

When Kelsey didn’t return right away, I went looking for her in the next aisle.  It must have been a mother’s intuition that something was wrong, because to my horror my daughter had climbed up on the shelves. She was balancing precariously on her toes ten feet up as she tried to reach something on the highest shelf.

Kelsey!  Don’t move! I yelled as I raced down the aisle towards her.

In slow motion I saw my daughter startle, then her foot slipped of the shelf edge that she was standing on. She shrieked as she fell backwards towards the concrete floor, her long dark hair spreading out like a fan around her.  I was running full out, but I knew I wouldn’t make it to her in time. There was a blur of motion from the other direction and to my shock, a man who seemed to come out of nowhere caught her before she hit the floor.

I came to a complete stop a few feet away from them, my heart pounding frantically. 

The man held Kelsey firmly, one thickly muscled arm underneath her thighs and one around her waist, holding her back against his broad chest. 

Hey, watch the claws there, pup, the man said quietly.  You’re safe now.

I looked down and to my horror, Kelsey’s claws were out.  She was gripping the man’s arm, breaking the skin, and causing him to bleed.  Crap. We’d moved to Greysden because it was a shifter town, but as a human, I had no idea what the protocol was here.  Were shifters out in the open around the humans?  Was the man going to have to report her to the authorities for scratching him?  She was just a little kid, she hadn’t learned how to control her wolf side yet.

Kelsey! I hissed. Put those things away and apologize to the nice man.

The man looked towards me for the first time, his eyes widening. 

He was a big man, with wide shoulders, a trim waist, and a muscular physique.  He was startlingly handsome, with olive skin, light brown hair, and a square jaw covered with just enough scruff that I had the strangest urge to feel it between my thighs.  I mentally shook myself and met his intense dark eyes.

I’m so...

Mine! he interrupted with a growl.  His eyes flashed, and I realized that he was some kind of a shifter.  I recognized the look of animal pacing close to the surface.  The possessive look he