Matt

A cougar shifter civil engineer who never forgot the pretty lawyer he met once. A Florida panther shifter raised by vampires who has decided the shifter world is not for her. A Napa Valley construction project, a trio of evil mages, and an earthquake they need to stop before it triggers the Big One.

Matt Redstone is the youngest of five brothers. He's the charming one, the sociable one, the one who can talk anyone into anything. He's been working on a project in Northern California and the woman he met briefly a year ago just came back into his life, and he is not leaving until he figures out why he never stopped thinking about her.

Morgan Chase is a Florida panther shifter who was orphaned young and raised by a vampire Master. She is a fully licensed attorney, an independent professional, and a woman who has deliberately kept her distance from the shifter world. Her one experience of Clan life involved a Pack that kept its women at home, barefoot, and silent, and she has exactly zero interest in any version of that. No matter how charming Matt Redstone is.

But they have a problem that requires both of them to solve. Something is causing tremors under the Napa Valley, and when they follow it into the tunnels of an old gold mine, they find Venifucus mages trying to trigger a catastrophic earthquake — and themselves trapped underground when the first collapse seals the tunnel behind them.

Matt has been waiting for a chance to prove himself to this woman. He didn't expect the opportunity to involve a cave-in.

Perfect for readers who love charming, patient heroes who let their actions do the talking, independent heroines who have every reason to resist but can't, paranormal romance with genuine thriller stakes, and series finales that bring everything home.

- Fated mates — cougar and Florida panther

- Independent career-woman heroine / charming youngest-brother hero

- Venifucus villain plot — geological magical threat

- Cave-in / trapped underground / forced proximity

- Lone shifter heroine raised by vampires

- Action-thriller stakes woven through the romance

- Steamy, satisfying HEA

- Book 5 — the Redstone Clan series conclusion

Perfect for fans of Terry Spear's Heart of the Wolf series and Paige Tyler's SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team, Matt delivers shifter paranormal romance with a thriller spine, a heroine worth rooting for, and the most satisfying series conclusion you'll find in the genre.