Pretty Poison
Kari Gregg
Noah fell from an eighth story balcony as a toddler, cracking open his skull and shattering his body. The accident would've killed a human, but even shifter blood can't heal some damage. After the pack recommended a mercy killing, Noah's family ran. But there's no outrunning the mating pact formed before Noah's birth.
Wade, the new alpha, chooses an adult Noah to fulfill the pact. Wade believes the previous alpha was a fool to reject Noah as a weak and inferior wolf, but Noah's family was wrong to hide him and starve his wolf, too. Human doctors with human medicines are poison to shifter physiology. Now that Noah is fully grown, halting his shift to retain the pins, plates, and bars holding him together hurts rather than helps him, and for Wade, more than Noah's recovery is at stake.
Noah's family sacrificed everything to keep him alive. Noah will do whatever it takes to save them--including mate with the alpha who is determined to correct past mistakes and defeat old prejudices contaminating the shifter community.
Too bad some still believe Noah is the true poison...and should be culled from the pack for good.
Content Warnings: Dubious consent, shifter knotting/tying, and Nerf gun assassination attempts. Ereaders (and you) may spontaneously combust--Don't say I didn't warn you.
Length: 54,540 Words
Tagged as:
- gay romance 10
- shapeshifters 10
- paranormal 10
- disabilities & scars 10
- tortured hero 10
- alpha male 10
- urban fantasy 10
- enemies to lovers 10
- werewolves 10
- fantasy 10
- omegaverse 7
- age gap 5
- angst 5
- contemporary 5
- height difference 2
- age play 1
- secret child 1
- breeding 1
- hurt/comfort 1
- queer romance 1
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- abuse 5
- rape 5
- dubious consent 3