A brand-new steamy standalone paranormal romance from Domino Taylor, co-creator of the Wild Operatives series.Exchanging her stable teaching job for life as a starving artist means Madeleine has no time for fun or sexy men. Too bad the hottest creature in all of Texas has moved in next door, and his favorite activity is ruffling her feathers. Being at the wrong place at the wrong time landed Dean … wrong time landed Dean in government protection, his new home a little rural community named Swan Lake. As the sole fox among them, he’s an object of interest, curiosity, and distrust among the swan maidens. But the ivory beauty next door is too much temptation to handle.
Swan Lake is Maddie’s home, and Dean is a city boy at heart. The chemistry between them is like shrimp and grits–they don’t belong together, but the results are too delicious to matter.
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No Fox to Give is the first in a new series by Domino Taylor (half of the Vivienne Savage writing team) about a small town named Swan Lake inhabited by, you guessed it, mostly swan shifters. I really liked that the main characters in this book were a swan and fox shifter since they’re both species you don’t see often in paranormal romance.
Madeleine is pretty awesome as a heroine, all around. She’s feisty, passionate, driven, and still sweet. I really enjoyed the relationship she had with her best friend and neighbor as well. Dean is a bit cocky, definitely handy (hey, he’s a contractor, mind out of the gutter), and pretty jaded from his childhood. His obvious love for his very human brother is another aspect that I liked a lot; it showed how much he rose above his fathers influence.
All in all, the story was relatively short but thorough, with a good story-line and character development, a little drama, a little steam (very little and very short), some sweet romance, and some world building. I look forward to the next book and the future of Swan Lake!
This is a sweet little romance. A little bit of passion without the details. A good change without the courseness of most modern day romance.
great read
Fun shape shifters in an interesting small town.
There’s a fox in the swan house
What an adorable book. I love how the author took what could have been a disaster and changed it to a rebirth. For the town, for the characters and most of all for this couple. The interaction between the characters is detailed and realistic drawing you further into the story. I was a little disappointed in the quietness of the shifter side of the characters, but the storyline more than made up for it. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
Gave up. For me it just failed ,I can spend my time on something better.
Dean ends up in Crisis (what a great name for a town!) with gangsters hot on his tail like Mitch (from Shelly Laurenston’s “The Mane Attraction”) but without the bullet in his body. This is not quite as chaotic as Mitch’s stay in Smithville but Dean, like Mitch, despite being very different from the locals, makes a place for himself in this little town with the help of a local beauty. Unlike Sissy Mae, Maddie has very little self-confidence but with a little pushing from the very foxy Dean, she steps up and out and realizes a couple of important dreams, one of which includes the said very foxy Dean. Very sweet this romance and definitely worth the read.
It was okay. I would not read it again. I would not continue with the rest of the book.
Very enjoyable read. Fell in love with the quirky characters.
Love this and book 2.
I enjoyed this story. The characters were like able and fun to learn about.
I always enjoy reading shifter romances that don’t scare the pants off me. Who knew that fixes and swans could fall in love!
Didn’t finish. Slow start and not real appealing characters.
This was cute but short. I would give it 3.5 if they allowed half stars.
Very unique and fun book to read. Would definitely recomend.
Sometimes you just want to read a light, easy, relatively drama-free sexy romance and this book fit the bill. I liked the friendships and the energies of the townsfolk, so will read the next book in the series. Final Rating: 3.5 Stars