Once burned, twice shy…After her heart is broken, curvy Mary Andre is determined to never risk it again. Besides, she has too much work and too many bills for her SoCal sheep ranch to bother with romance. Born under the Virgo sign, she has a can-do attitude. Everything is under control until her coyote-shifter ex-husband slaughters one of her flock. Mary goes looking for a hero-for-hire, but … but fate deals her a Greek god. Handsome Demetri Larsen puts the tempt into temptation. It takes every ounce of her willpower to resist her desire for him.
Cursed to wander the earth until he finds his soulmate…
For three hundred years, the immortal ram-shifter lived life on the road, chasing pleasure when not called upon to act as an Aries Guardian. For Demetri, desire and duty are about to collide head-on when a feisty redhead upends his entire world. In his determination to neither hurt nor be hurt, Demetri refuses to take a chance on the love that could set him free.
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Never underestimate fate and the power it plays out in ones life. Our couple overcome a whole lot of baggage once they get out of each other’s way. It’s really cute how the hero’s personality traits reflect his animal.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I may be biased because I am an Ares but I am really liking these ram shifters and Ram Rugged is really tickled my fancy. Mary and Demitri are two really strong, wonderful characters that has some sizzling chemistry between them and they easily draw readers in. The romance is sweet and the passion is red hot, of course the relationship has a few bumps to get over, like quite a few secrets and then there is thrilling suspense of the danger that Mary is facing and what’s more, this story provided quite a few chuckles and I really loved Colleen, she is something else.
Overall, this Zodiac Shifter story was well written, the author added depth and a little lagniappe with mythological elements that she spun into a great read and and I couldn’t put the story down until I had read every last word. Oh and I should probably mention that I loved the outcome of the dangerous situation facing Mary, it is a really fitting end to the bad guy.
Mary has had her heart broken and is just trying to keep her organic sheep ranch afloat. Demetri is a Ram shifter, who along with his friend Colleen is trying to find other possible siblings. He ends up working for Mary, but almost loses the job before he even gets started. Mary is also trying to deal with her ex husband who is convinced she is his mate and will stop at nothing to get her back.
I really enjoyed this book. Especially loved the unicorn comment! You will have to read it to understand, but totally worth it.
Loved, loved, loved this book! Lots of humor throughout this book which was great! Mary was a great character who was likeable and well developed. Demetri was also likeable and enjoyable. Lots of action and humor topped off with lots of steam. The story was fun throughout the book with some great secondary characters. Colleen who was a herding dog and also Demetri’s sister was delightful as only a sister can be at times. I am voluntarily reviewing an arc I received from Booksprout.
We meet Mary and her best friend Tammy sitting at a bar. They are blowing off a little steam and girl talk. Mary has recently divorced from her sleazy lawyer husband. They were not married long before Mary discovered that he was cheating on her. As a result she does not trust men. Mary owns a sheep farm and is trying to keep her head above her financial situation. One of her favorite ewes Elle was just killed on her ranch, sadly she was also pregnant. Mary loves every one of her sheep and this was hard. She knows her husband, Quentin, a coyote shifter is responsible.
Tammy spies a handsome man staring at Mary and encourages Mary to take a chance and go talk to him. Mary does and meets Demitri. She thinks he looks like a Greek god. Demitri is a descendant of a Greek God. He takes Mary home and they have amazing sex. She then finds out that he is her job applicant for a ranch hand. He gets the job and Mary thinks she can handle the hands off of the employee.
Demetri has his own agenda for meeting Mary and getting to know her. He also brings with him his dog companion, Colleen.
This book had fun characters, there was explosive sex, drama and a good bit of humor. Who knew that ram shifters with golden wool were so sexy? I could not put the book down.
This story wow what to say here not to spoil it.
First off this is not really a typical shifter story. Yes it’s a mythology type of course but it’s more than that too. We have Demetri who is cursed, he is in a small town for a reason but that all goes up in smoke literally.
Mary has her flock of lambs that she uses to earn money for her small farm left to her by her now deceased parents. She has one mean ex-husband who is a sneaky coyote.
This story will give you gut busting funny, and sizzling hot romance, but we also get a bit of suspense. I truly enjoyed this story.
This is Demetri and Mary’s story . This one starts off with Mary dealing with one of her sheep that she considers part of her family has been killed but for her it is double painful since Elle ( the sheep ) was pregnant and Tammy her friend is trying to console her . Mary just knows that her ex is the reason but as of yet has not proof . So here they sit in a bar when Tammy informs Mary that a guy had been staring at her for an hour already and when she sees him she tries to hide lol ! But once she meets Demetri they hit it off ! ( here I just have to add that I like the way that Demetri was abel to worry about what and who he is and that he hoped it would not be a turn off ! ) But Colleen would be the deciding factor ! The tat on his back sounds wicked cool !! To find out what Demetri is from her ex ??!! ” He’s ill-tempered ” ” Not suitable for breeding at all . ” I’ll call the vet to come and have him neutered .” PRICELESS !!! OMG !! Dang curse !! The barn is on fire !!! All that she loves is trapped inside !! YES !!! That crazy coyote got what he deserved !! Wow this book is hot as heck and so AWESOME !!!! And that quote at the start of the epilogue ?? PRICELESS !!