Sterling
Book Overview
- First published
- 13 Apr 2017
- Reading order
- Not yet set
- Available as
- Format
- eBook
- Length
- 122 pages
- Published
- 13 Apr 2017
- Publisher
- Lovestruck Romance
Trope TagsPossible spoilers
Warning TagsPossible spoilers
Main Love InterestsPossible spoilers
About This Book
A dirt-track champion. A small-town journalist. One fated mate bond too strong to deny.
Sterling Mallory is Burden’s top race car driver and resident troublemaker. His reputation as a womanizer cost him the only woman who matters—his fated mate.
Ophelia Barnes returned to Burden after a failed Nashville career and a family scandal. She needs a front-page story to keep her job at The Burden Gazette—not another heartbreak tied to the man she despises.
Sterling wants redemption. Ophelia wants distance. Their bears want each other.
Expect explosive chemistry, primal claiming, small-town tension, and a possessive bear hero who refuses to lose his mate twice. This is a high-heat shifter romance with humor, heart, and a guaranteed HEA.
Tropes: Fated mates • Small-town romance • Brother’s enemy • Redemption arc • Possessive bear shifter • Dirt-track racer hero • Forced proximity • Storm-bound intimacy • Mate claiming
Heat Level: Very Spicy
Tone: Emotional, Humorous, Light, Fun
Series Type: Standalone in a series
Ending: HEA
POV: Dual POV
Setting: Burden, Texas
Content Notes: Explicit intimacy, mate marking, family conflict, small-town scandal
Book Overview
- First published
- 13 Apr 2017
- Reading order
- Not yet set
- Available as
- Format
- Audiobook
- Length
- 3 hours 16 minutes
- Published
- 6 Apr 2020
- Publisher
- Lovestruck Romance
- Narration
- Solo narration
- Narrators
- R. J. Creighton
Trope TagsPossible spoilers
Warning TagsPossible spoilers
Main Love InterestsPossible spoilers
About This Book
Sterling Mallory likes fast – fast cars and faster women, anything to keep the ghosts at bay. Living life on the edge catches up to him when he carelessly makes an enemy of Kyle Barns. Who knew that Kyle’s younger sister would turn out to be Sterling’s mate? Now, his mate hates him.
Ophelia Barns left her flourishing journalism career in Nashville to come back home to Burden, Texas. Her brother has always been her rock, and now, it’s her turn to be there for him. When someone crosses him, they cross her.
When Ophelia is forced to interview Sterling for the local Burden Gazette, despite the fact that they don’t have an easy time dealing with each other, the attraction is so intense that they might each be willing to make some sacrifices.
In Burden, Texas, bear shifters Hawthorne, Wyatt, Hutch, Sterling, and Sam are livin’ easy. Beer flows freely; pretty girls are abundant. The last thing these good ol’ bears are thinking about is getting hitched.
Until fate comes knocking…
This is a steamy paranormal shifter fantasy romance series with an HEA and no cliff-hangers. It’s for lovers of paranormal, urban fantasy, shapeshifters, contemporary, and, of course, spicy, sizzling, hot romance. Fans of Zoe Chant, Terry Bolryder, Harmony Raines, Kim Fox, and T.S. Joyce may like this shapeshifter series.
Warning: This book is not intended for listeners under the age of 18.
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