After ten years, my dad’s best friend is back and bossier than ever. Dragging me out of the bar and away from the men buying me drinks and helping me forget that, yet again, my dad didn’t care to spend Christmas with his only daughter.

I loved Kane when I was a kid. He was there for me. He cared for me. Now, I hate him for abandoning me. The way he yells at me, like he can’t see me for the adult I’ve become, I’d say Kane hates me too.

Kane doesn’t trust me to stay away from the bar and shoves me in his car. After an unexpected nip slip on the reckless drive to his cabin in the mountains, the tension between us is thicker than ever.

My attraction to Kane is undeniable. The more time I spend trapped with him, the harder it is to hide it.

As the snow continues to fall and Christmas approaches, I find out I’m not the only one with something to hide. With the electricity out and only the heat of our bodies to keep us warm, we’re at risk of revealing more than just our secrets.

If you like age gap romances with grumpy, bossy heroes and smart-mouth heroines, then this fated mates wolf shifter mafia novella is for you!

Dragons are real. Or so I'd been told.

But it's not until I wake up in a frozen cave on the edge of death, with two massive men made of skin and scale watching over me, that I finally believe.

Jathe and Makias are fearsome creatures. Part of me wants to run and hide, but another is inexplicably drawn to them.

I'm trapped in this cave until the snowstorm they found me in passes. With each passing minute, the desperate thread that drew me thousands of miles and across a frozen wasteland secures itself around my heart.

But who holds the other end? The human-hating Jathe or the tenderhearted Makias?

Or maybe, if I'm lucky, both?

This book was previously released on Kindle Vella under the title "Skin and Scale." It has undergone some revision as I've integrated it into the same world as my other book, "Wrapped Up With the Wolf." Don't worry! These two books can be read in any order.