Saving Jace: A Fated Mates Romance (The Fada Shapeshifter Series Book 5) by Rebecca Rivard

You’re barely keeping it together—grief, bills, and a teenage brother who needs you to be the strong one. Romance? Not on the agenda. Then he shows up. Bleeding. Dangerous. Beautiful. A black panther shifter with haunted eyes and secrets that could shatter your world. You order him to leave. “Can’t,” he says. "Can't?" you huff. And gasp as he slides sideways, boneless as a rag doll...A steamy, fated mates romance!✓ Black panther shifter✓ Mate bond✓ Protective alpha male✓ Wounded hero✓ A human who's more than she seems"Primally exciting, sexy and downright fun, Saving Jace is an absolute winner!"~InD'Tale MagazineBEST SHIFTER NOVEL, Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewers' Choice AwardsNOTE: Saving Jace is the first book in the Darktime Trilogy featuring the Baltimore Earth Fada clan. All books in the Fada Shapeshifter Series are standalone with an HEA, but the stories and people interconnect. If you crave dark shifters, seductive fae and intense emotional storylines, this series is for you.EXCERPT: Someone was watching her. Evie gripped her keys and glanced around.Across the alley, a pair of luminous green eyes stared at her from the shadows.Her heart kicked into a gallop. “Jace? Is that you?”Please let it be him. He stepped out of the shadows. She blew out a breath. It was Jace.He crossed the alley in a few long, loose strides. An atavistic tremor went down her spine.This was the real Jace—and he was nothing like the injured, feverish victim of last week. No, this man was dark. Powerful. Raw-boned. A panther in a T-shirt and jeans.She squared her shoulders and lifted her chin, because damn it, she’d saved the man’s life. She refused to let him spook her.He stopped a few feet away. “Hello, Evie.”He was bigger than she remembered, but then, last week he’d been hunched over nursing his injuries. Now she realized he was a good half foot taller than her with the lean, hard build of a soldier.Another shiver went down her spine. But this one had nothing to do with fear.THE FADA Shapeshifters created during Dionysus’s infamous bacchanals from a mix of fae, human and animal genes.They’re ruthless, untamed...but when they love, it’s forever.