Review by Booklist Review
In Ferguson's latest, Tess has just learned the shocking truth that she is an omega wolf shifter after spending her entire life believing she was a beta. Not only that, but she's going to be struggling with her hormones during her transition and should probably stay away from alphas. The only problem with that is that Tess is starting a contracting job fixing up a Colorado Inn, and the grumpy owner is an alpha himself. Hunter is a shifter who prefers to be alone and has mostly sequestered himself in his family's inn. The inn itself is in dire financial straits, and he has to figure out how to save it. These two opposites find themselves attracting as they're drawn together through Tess' hormonal shifts. Ferguson weaves together a light romance with lots of steam. This paranormal romp is a good one for readers new to werewolves to devour, wrapped in a cute package of which HGTV would be envious. Fans of creature romances, snowed-in tropes, and grumpy-sunshine dynamics will love this take on werewolf romance.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Tess Covington is a talented, successful contractor who just learned that she's a late-in-life omega wolf shifter. Her new boss, surly innkeeper Hunter Barrett, is an alpha who's opposed to the remodeling she's there to do. Tess hasn't made it public that she's being considered for her own HGTV makeover show, but she runs her career like a well-oiled machine. She posts a lot of her remodels on social media, granting her a certain level of celebrity, and leans on her brothers to help run the business she took over after a stroke made it impossible for her father to keep working. Hunter's last serious relationship with an omega 10 years ago left him deeply wounded, ending when his parents were killed in a car accident and he moved back home to take care of their lodge--hence his resistance to change. With few exceptions, Tess keeps her newly diagnosed omega status to herself. Unfortunately, as an alpha, Hunter sniffs her out and seems to be the only person capable of helping her with her sudden heats, so there's a lot of very smutty caretaking. The specificity of omegaverse hierarchy might be new to some readers, but Ferguson's worldbuilding is quick, easy, and deeply horny. General romance readers might enjoy the grumpy-meets-sunshine and stranded-in-a-snowstorm tropes, although for a book about shifters, the characters spend surprisingly little time in wolf form. There's not much danger of character development or surprising plot elements here, but for fans excited to read about animalistic mating, that might be enough. A book that will wolfishly appeal to the most heated fans of omegaverse erotica. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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