Also by Lauren Esker
. Three exciting full-length paranormal romances! Contains Handcuffed to the Bear, Guard Wolf and Dragon’s Luck in a convenient boxed set.
– Shifter Agents #1. A bear-shifter ex-mercenary and a curvy lynx shifter searching for her best friend's killer are handcuffed together and hunted in the wilderness. Can they learn to rely on each other before their pasts, and their pursuers, catch up with them? Full-length romantic suspense novel.
– Shifter Agents #2. Avery is a lone werewolf without a pack; Nicole is a social worker trying to put her life back together after a personal disaster. When he shows up on her doorstep with a box of orphaned werewolf puppies and danger in pursuit, can two lonely people find the family they've been missing in each other? Full-length romantic suspense novel.
– Shifter Agents #3. Gecko shifter and infiltration expert Jen Cho teams up with sexy dragon-shifter gambler "Lucky" Lucado to win a high-stakes poker game. Now they're trapped on a cruise ship full of mobsters, mysterious enemy agents, and evil dragons, and it'll take all their wits and luck to get out of this alive! Full-length romantic suspense novel.
– Shifter Agents #4. In her search for the truth about shifters, tell-all blogger Peri Moreland has been clashing with tiger shifter and SCB agent Noah Easton for years. Now she and Noah are on the run with an unstoppable assassin after them and a custom-made plague threatening the entire shifter world. Full-length romantic suspense novel.
– Ladies of the Pack #1. Lioness shifter Debi never dreamed she'd find love in the arms of a human; alpha real estate magnate Fletcher has had enough bad experiences with shifters to last a lifetime. Can two ambitious people overcome their pride and their prejudices to realize the only thing missing from their lives is each other? Full length paranormal romance novel.
- Can the big bad wolf and a sheep shifter have a happy ending? Curvy farm girl Julie Capshaw was always warned away from the wolf shifters next door, but Damon Wolfe is the motorcycle-riding, smoking hot alpha wolf of her dreams! This paranormal romance novel is a romantic comedy spiced with action and red-hot sex.
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Shifter Agents Boxed Set #1
Three full length novels of paranormal romantic suspense in a convenient boxed set, free on Kindle Unlimited!
Handcuffed to the Bear- Handcuffed together and hunted, they must rely on each other to survive!
Sample:
Better get up and get moving. Which means waking up Sleeping Beauty here.
Casey rose to her knees and bent over her unexpected companion.
By now her eyes had fully adjusted to the darkness, as much as they were going to. Her new handcuff buddy was a white guy with dark hair and broad, powerfully muscled shoulders. Even lying down, he was big. She didn't really want to think about how tall he'd be standing up.
She started to reach for his shoulder, then pulled her hand back when she noticed a long scar across the shoulder blade, going down his back. What was that from, a knife? Now that she was looking more closely, scars marked his skin like a constellation of past violence. There was a long set of parallel stripes over his ribs that looked like claw marks, and a little puckered scar above his left hip where she was pretty sure a bullet had gone through.
Great, she thought. So not only am I stuck in the woods with an enormous naked stranger, but he's the kind who gets into fights a lot. Really violent fights. Better and better.
Casey sat back on her naked haunches and studied him. She wished her head would stop hurting, and that she had even the faintest clue who he was, or whether he was in league with the people who'd put her here.
There were tattoos on his right arm, the one she was handcuffed to. Casey had a little ink on her ankle, a small rose, but this guy had quite a bit more. She gave the cuffs a tug, shifting his limp arm so she could see it better.
The one on his forearm was a dark blur, and she had to tilt her head to make it out: an assault rifle and the word Defend.
Army, maybe?
Much more dramatic was the big, elaborate tattoo that covered his upper arm, wrapping around his shoulder. It was a snarling bear, standing rampant on its back legs. Grizzly, she thought.
Between the grizzly tat and the claw scars, odds were pretty good he was a shifter like her. Wendy used to be able to say she could tell by the way people smelled, but Casey couldn't. Maybe she just hadn't spent enough time around her own kind to be able to.
Thinking of Wendy made a little ripple travel across her skin, a shiver like the fur rising along the spine of her lynx form.
What do I tell him about me?
Play dumb, she decided. Play innocent victim until she figured out more about who he was and what he was doing here. Maybe someone who got into fights with people who had knives and guns would be a good ally ... if he didn't turn out to be an even more effective enemy.
Guard Wolf- Can two lonely people find a home in each other?
Sample:
The werewolf puppies started howling, a high-pitched squeaky chorus. Agent Hollen winced.
"They were doing that in the car, too," he said. "And wouldn't stay in their box."
"Well, of course," Nicole said. "They're babies. They're cold, hungry, and scared. They don't understand being shoved into a box and ignored." She began mixing formula according to the instructions on the box, and used self-assurance to cover the fact that she hadn't actually done this very much. She did not often deal with extremely young children without a parent, nurse, or someone else better qualified to care for them than herself. Speaking of ... "Where are their parents? Do you know?"
"No, like I said, they were found on the street. We don't know who the parents are. Yet," he added.
"You had better stop that ankle-biter there." Nicole jerked her head at the kitchenette doorway.
"Oh, for—"
One of the puppies, the same ginger-colored one Nicole had caught climbing out of the box, was currently waddling for freedom as fast as she could. Hollen's longer legs overtook the puppy easily, even with his limp, and he hesitated briefly before scooping her up. Nicole watched out of the corner of her eye, but after a moment's awkwardness he cradled the puppy to his chest, tucking her blunt snout into the crook of his arm to shut out sensory input. The puppy settled down, nestling against him.
He's naturally good at it, she thought, filling the bottles. He was awkward enough around these kids that she guessed he didn't have kids of his own, but he seemed to be able to intuit what to do with them, even lacking base knowledge to draw upon. Some people, when handed a child, were miserably inept. Agent Hollen seemed to be the sort of person who could understand and anticipate their needs without realizing he was doing so.
Which was, she discovered, a remarkably attractive quality in a man.
Dragon's Luck- A sexy gambler and a daredevil agent team up in a high-stakes poker game on a cruise ship full of enemies!
Sample:
He'd caught her attention the moment he walked in—and not for the reasons one might expect. There was certainly plenty about Lucky to catch the eye. His face was sharp and handsome: dark hair swept back from a high forehead, clean cheekbones and deep olive skin. And he knew he was good-looking. She could see it in his swagger, sense it in the way his green velvet jacket gaped to show a glimpse of the toned pectoral muscles rippling underneath his black silk shirt ...
Green velvet jacket. Who wore something like that? It was like he deliberately wanted to look like a lounge lizard.
No, none of that turned her head. Not in the slightest. The guy she'd heard the other gamblers address as Lucky Lucado caught her attention because he was a shifter, and shifters could always recognize each other. In fact, when he first stepped into the card room, she'd seen him pause, looking around, and held her small gecko body very still on the ceiling, heart pattering. Some shifters were more sensitive than others, and just her luck, he'd be aware enough to know she was in the room even without being able to see her. But as she waited and stilled and imagined herself part of the low ceiling tiles, he relaxed somewhat.
She didn't know what he turned into, but he was definitely a shifter. There was no mistaking that flash of recognition.
And if he was a shifter, then odds were good he was involved with the shifter drug trafficking ring she was on this boat to crack, which put him under the jurisdiction of the Special Crimes Bureau.
And therefore, she was here to arrest him.
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