“God help us if you ever need surgery, then.” Pat inspected his nails, which were spade-shaped and the color of glossy pink pearls. “Got an interview.”
“I figured. The suit and all.”
Pat was wearing one of his brother’s navy-blue pin-striped suits with a crisp white shirt and a pale-blue tie dotted with poppies that looked like blood clots. Though he wouldn’t leave the house, Pat was a big believer in “dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” Which led to some confusion the month he wanted to be a park ranger. (“I don’t care if it’s five below; this is what rangers wear!”) And the following month, when he wanted to be a hippotherapist. (“If you’re going to do physical therapy with horses, this is what it takes!”)
“I’m letting you change the subject in your clumsy and obvious way because I’ve said my piece—”
“Oh God, if only that were true.”
“—and because I want you to get what this means. No longer will I be the homeless parasite suckling at your 24-acre teat!” Pat declared.
“Okay, gross.” Not to mention inaccurate. Pat insisted on paying $666.66 every other month, and he was far from homeless. “You know you don’t have to get another job on my account.”
“This isn’t about you or your account. It’s about me getting a job within these four walls before I go crazy within these four walls.”
“Good for you,” she said, snarfing the last of her runny omelet. “And stop with the matchmaking-roommate trope.”
“I’m the original, dammit! Tropes come from me, not the other way around. Take. That. Back.”
“Nuh-uh. And good luck on your interview. Knock ’em…uh…” Argh. Because once upon a time, she and Pat had knocked ’em dead. It was why he wore his straight blond hair shoulder-length, when his preference for years had been a buzz cut. “Knock ’em good luck.”
“Gosh, it’s such a treat to see your razor-like mind in action.”
“You wait. ‘Knock ’em good luck’ will be in the national lexicon within the month,” she said, and stifled an eggy, hammy burp.
Bears Behaving Badly
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About the Author
MaryJanice Davidson is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of several novels and is published across multiple genres, including the UNDEAD series and the Tropes Trilogy. Her books have been published in over a dozen languages and have been on bestseller lists all over the world. She has published books, novellas, articles, short stories, recipes, reviews, and rants, and writes a biweekly column for USA Today. A former model and medical test subject (two jobs that aren’t as far apart as you’d think), she has been sentenced to live in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with her husband, children, and dogs. You can track her down (wait, that came out wrong…) on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and at maryjanicedavidson.org.
Bears Behaving Badly
An extraordinary new series from bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson featuring a foster care system for orphaned shifter kids (and kits, and cubs)
Annette Garsea is the fiercest bear shifter the interspecies foster care system has ever seen. She fights hard for the safety and happiness of the at-risk shifter teens and babies in her charge—and you do not want to get on the wrong side of a mama werebear.
Handsome, growly bear shifter PI David Auberon has secretly been in love with Annette since forever but he’s too shy to make a move. All he can do is offer her an unlimited supply of Skittles and hope she’ll notice him. She’s noticed the appealingly scruffy PI, all right, but the man’s barely ever said more than five words to her… Until they encounter an unexpected threat from within and put everything aside to fight for their charges. Dodging unidentified enemies puts them in a tight spot. Very tight. Together. Tonight…
“Davidson is in peak form in this hilarious, sexy, and heartfelt paranormal romance.”
—Booklist Starred Review
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Night of the Billionaire Wolf
USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear brings you a shifter world like no other
Lexi Summerfield built her business from the ground up. But with great wealth comes great responsibility, and some drawbacks she could never have anticipated. Lexi never knows who she can trust… And for good reason—the paparazzi are dogging her, and so is someone else with evil intent.
When Lexi meets bodyguard and gray wolf shifter Ryder Gallagher on the hiking trails, she breaks her own rules about getting involved. But secrets have a way of surfacing. And with the danger around Lexi escalating, Ryder will do whatever it takes to stay by her side…
“Fun, flirty, and super sexy.”
—Fresh Fiction for A Silver Wolf Christmas
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Wolf Untamed
SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team, from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Paige Tyler
SWAT werewolf Diego Martinez has always had a protective side, so when he meets a newly turned teenage werewolf, and the kid’s intriguing mother, he offers to help Brandon learn what it means to be a werewolf. He also falls for Brandon’s mother, Bree, and the attraction is mutual.
But as SWAT’s biggest case starts to threaten Bree’s family, Diego and Bree risk everything they’ve got to discover the truth and keep each other safe.
“Unputdownable… Whiplash pacing, breathless action, and scintillating romance.”
—K.J. Howe, international bestselling author, for Wolf Under Fire
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Season of the Wolf
Next in Maria Vale’s extraordinary series: The Legend of All Wolves
For the Alpha, things are never easy. The Great North Pack has just survived a deadly attack, and Evie Kitwanasdottir is dealing with new challenges, including the four hazardous Shifters taken into custody. Constantine, the most dangerous, is assigned to Evie’s own 7th echelon.
Constantine lost his parents and his humanity on the same devastating day. He has been a thoughtless killer ever since. When Constantine moves under Evie’s watchful eye, he discovers that taking orders is not the same as having a purpose. In Evie, he finds a
