Shark's Alpha: A Shifters United Fated Mates Novella

By Adera Orfanelli

A boat trip meant to relax Carmen DiAngelo, alpha of the Lime Kiln Pack, turns into an encounter of the shark kind when a great white swims alongside her boat. One look in his eye and she knows he's a shifter...and he's her mate.

Carmen's trying to create the Shifters United alliance and while she'd love to also include aquatic shifters, mixing business and personal is never recommended. Mixing pack business with a shark certainly creates a volatile mix. But her wolf wants, what her wolf wants, and her alliance will only be half as strong without aquatic shifters.

Tiri Delray knows the instant he sees the beautiful woman that she's his mate, that she's a wolf is of no consequence. His shiver will obey their alpha or face consequences. Her alliance, however, is just as alluring, because he'd been trying to find a way to broker cease fire with the orca shifters. His shiver had suffered a terrible loss and no more blood needed to be spilled in the ocean.

Can Carmen bring the aquatic shifters on board with her fledgling alliance and broker a cease fire between the sharks and the orcas?

But first she'll have to convince her pack their mating is true, and find a way to deal with them both being alphas. When passion runs this hot, just she must might have to submit to being the shark's alpha.

Author's note: Each book in the Shifters United series stands alone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Adera Orfanelli
• Release date: Aug 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005136772

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SHARK’S ALPHA:

A Shifters United Fated Mates Novella

Mary Winter

Pairing M/F

In Her Mate’s Arms (Book 1 writing as Mary Winter)

Always Her Wolf (Book 2 writing as Mary Winter)

Shark’s Alpha (Book 3)

More coming soon....

Chapter One

Biologists have long written that wolves are comfortable in the water and Carmen DiAngelo, Alpha of the Lime Kiln pack was no exception. When running in her wolf form, Carmen loved to splash through streams and even paddle through rivers. She’d been known to jump in puddles as a human, watching the water spray and laughing at the sheer joy of doing something so uninhibited. She dove off the deck of the boat, her mask and snorkel firmly in place into the blue depths of the Pacific.

There weren’t any orcas in the area, so she had few worries as she moved farther away from the boat, taking a deep breath before diving deeper. The ocean calmed her. Cleansed her of the land-bound worries of being a female alpha negotiating a tenuous agreement between the land shifters of the west coast. Only her father’s name and reputation kept the shifters at the table, and when she promised a world in which wolf didn’t turn on wolf or horse on coyote shifter, they’d listened. Apparently, they’d liked what they’d heard. A final signing date was currently being negotiated by her lieutenant, Diego.

She put thoughts of treaties and negotiations out of her mind as she watched a school of mackerels dart past. Shadows moved below her, and she dismissed them as the sunlight diminishing as it went through the water column. She kicked hard and pushed herself back toward the surface. She rose above the water and drew a lungful of air. She’d swam farther away from the boat than she’d anticipated so she turned and with strong strokes propelled herself back toward her vessel.

She made it back just as her muscles were beginning to burn, and she grabbed the ladder and climbed back on board. It’s lovely out there, she called to Travis, a mid-level member of her pack who ran a charter boat business. He needed the time off as much as she did, she suspected, and that’s why she called and asked him if he wanted to drive. Otherwise, she would have gone on her own and dropped anchor, no matter how many times her Second chided her for such behavior.

It is. Water’s nice and calm, he called back, never taking his eyes off the controls.

She took a moment to admire the waves of his dark hair, bare chest and muscled arms and the ink that circled his biceps, a ring of anchors on one, a howling wolf in a tribal band around his other. Denim shorts rode low on his hips, more ink on his legs. If she were the kind to settle, she’d hook up with him, not that he probably wanted the trouble that came with being an alpha’s mate. Travis admired her as a woman; he also feared her because she was a damn good alpha. And she knew her mate was out there…somewhere. I’m going to relax and then probably dive back in. She stretched out on a lounge chair and grabbed the sunscreen she’d left there, reapplying it liberally. Putting on a pair of over-sized sunglasses, she leaned back and closed her eyes, letting the sun warm and energize her. Oh how she’d needed this. Nearly two months of negotiations, not to mention all the groundwork she’d laid before that, had taken its toll. For someone who preferred to be out running, being cooped up in a room with multiple shifter species, all of whom had generations of distrust between them—yeah, not fun at all.

But she was completing the project her father had begun. And that, more than anything, gave her pride in her work. Being a professional mediator was usually boring as hell, trying to talk two macho assholes out of gutting each other’s companies. It came in handy when she kept two members of her pack from doing the same, only literally.

A splash off the side of the boat caught her attention. A breaching whale? She rolled onto her side, her heart racing at the sight of the silver-gray hide. The pointed dorsal fin announced the great white shark’s presence. She gasped. They’d been seen, though the orcas that often frequented this area were said to keep them at away. She moved to the edge of the boat. Great white, she called, thinking Travis might want to see.

Stay back, he warned.

I know, she countered. He’d been known to fill in as her Lieutenant, so it was no wonder he’d warn her to be careful. She watched as the shark circled, and then swam alongside the boat. It rose to the surface of the water, tilting so it seemed to look