Wolf shifter enforcer Grant Romano has been given a mission: track down the dirty cop who’s working for the Purists and uncover their plans for Heartsridge town. But that means visiting a human city. Now, he doesn’t have anything against humans, but he can’t help but wish he was somewhere else. Anywhere. The moon, perhaps? That’s because his fated mate—the one woman who is perfect for him, who he … he can’t stop thinking about—lives in that city. The same woman he walked away from after just one kiss.
To make matters even worse, she’s a cop. And it’s her team he’s been sent to investigate.
Human cop Mandy Evans can’t forget that kiss. That kiss. The kiss that she will measure all future kisses against. She should kick Grant Romano’s gorgeous ass for laying one on her and then walking away. But, luckily, she’ll never have to see the man again as they live in two very different worlds.
But then he strolls into her station and demands to see her boss. Oh, heck. How’s a girl meant to resist temptation when it’s right in front of her?
Fate might have thrown the pair together, but distance is determined to tear them apart. Grant can’t ask Mandy to give up everything she knows, but how can he walk away … again?
This full length novel is the second in a new series set in the town of Heartsridge. The author recommends that you start at the beginning of the series, due to the continuing storyline, but each book features a different couple and their happy ever after. Also included: naughty language, fully realized love scenes, and big, burly shifters who only have eyes for their fated mates.
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Heartsridge Shifters
It’s a new world. Shifters are no longer a secret and they’re ready to fight for their right to live free.
Everything is different.
Six years ago, the Registration Act forced shifters out into the open and the world changed. Towns were created to provide a safe haven for those shifters who chose to follow the law, and those who didn’t were declared rogue.
Heartsridge is one of the few shifter towns in existence, guarded and protected by special teams of bears and wolves. Their job: to protect the right for shifters to live and love, and for the space to run free as nature intended. Because not all humans found the truth easy to accept—that they’re no longer at the top of the food chain. Tourism keeps the town thriving, humans able to visit and stay for a week, but then they have to leave. It’s the law.
Because this new world can’t be trusted.
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Grant, a wolf shifter, and Mandy, a human police officer. The boot camp for the human cops had been a useful tool in more ways than one. The shifters now know there was a spy in the mix, a spy for the Purists. Now it is time to find out which cop it is by infiltrating the police department and “helping” them some more. Grant doesn’t mind the assignment because it means he can get close to Mandy, his mate. If she will let him. He kinda ran out on her after their first kiss, not his best move. Grant knows that Mandy has a life in the human world, and who is he to mess that up?
The shifters from Heartsridge are closing in on the purists trying to destroy any chance of Shifters and Humans mixing, will law enforcement on both sides be able to work together to find the traitors in their midst?
This series contains a whole host of interesting and lovable characters coupled with a storyline that easily keeps you hooked and will have you eagerly picking up the next book.
Grant is book 2 of Olivia Arran’s The Protectors series, which is part of her Heartsridge Shifters world. Grant is the enforce for the wolf pack in Heartsridge. He along with several other top shifters have been sent into the human world to catch a human traitor that’s working with the Purist. The characters, human and shifter alike, are extremely well written. They each have their own story to tell. Olivia has done an amazing job of with her ability to intermix the humans and shifters characters. I love the Heartsridge Shifters series and the spinoff books. I can’t wait to read Dante’s book. I received an ARC from the author. This is my voluntary honest review.
Heartsridge is a self-contained Shifter Community. These books detail the people and community that sustains and keeps safe the myriad shifters and their mates. The Mayor of Heartsridge knows that there is a traitor amongst the cops from that were allowed to train and bootcamp with the Heartsridge protectors/enforcers. Now it is the Heartsridge protectors/enforcers turn to train and bootcamp with humans outside of Heartsridge.
Grant, a wolf shifter, found his mate (Mandy) in one the of human police officers that visited during the boot camp training. He cannot live outside of Heartsridge and knows he cannot ask a human to give up everything for him. His wolf disagrees. Grant is given to the chance to go outside of Heartsridge and train with the human cops.
Mandy and Grant are paired for the training. Grant wants her, Mandy wants him. There is more at stake here than just a hook-up. They need to find a way to ferret out the dirty shifter or is it a dirty cop that is endangering the Heartsridge way of life. Can Mandy trust Grant to not run away again?
Darryl, another shifter, has a surprise. We have learned about Darryl from previous books and there may be an interesting twist. And Dante, a crabby dragon shifter, may be in for an interesting time as well. I love how these books grab you with interesting situations, great characters, drama and steamy romance.
I love this series and can’t wait for more. Olivia Arran has me hooked!
Grant’s wolf has been pining for its mate, making him a very irritable man! But his mate is 100% human and a cop. He doesn’t want to tear her away from her life and career that she loves if she isn’t interested in him. Yes they had a hot and heavy smooch session, but that does not a mating make!
Mandy has dreamt of the sexalicious Grant since she returned from Heartsridge with the rest of her squad but her mind and heart are a bit confused. Just as she thought they were getting somewhere he backed off and pretty much ignored her!
But with Purist sympathisers somehow hacked into Heartsridge systems, Grant and some other shifters are shipped off to track down who the traitor amongst Mandy’s team is. Sniffing out a traitor is really going to endear him to his mate….not!
Loved the tenderness between these two. Both were concerned about throwing their hearts in the ring for different reasons, Mandy thinks everyone she loves will leave and Grant is worried she will pick her career over him. Loved the snark between Kel and Mandy and the whole “dad person” thing made me LOL. Daryl as usual is getting on peoples nerves, but I at least got the little hint at where his story was going. Dante is going to have a time on his hands too!
WOW!!! So much intrigue and mystery in this series. But I’m loving every bit of it just when I thought the mystery was solve were hit with a surprise that I didn’t see coming. Great continuation to this series looking forward to seeing what else is in store for this series. I voluntarily read and review this ARC no monetary compensation was received the opinions I have expressed are my own.