Title: An Impossible Mate
Series: Strength of the Pack
Author: Joy Lynn Fielding
Genre: Shifter/Werewolves/Ds/Contemporary
Length: Novella (124 pages)
Publisher: Siren Publishing (October 10th, 2013)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥3Hearts
Blurb: Loner Matt Urban has somehow ended up as alpha to a pack of outcasts and misfits. When an injured shifter blunders onto their territory one night, swearing he didn’t know it was pack territory, Matt is suspicious. It doesn’t help that the stranger, Jesse Turner, is as stubborn as Matt. Wanting answers, Matt persuades Jesse to stay a while, and the intense attraction they feel for one another soon blazes into heat. That’s when Matt realizes—the stranger with the smart mouth and the attitude problem is his mate.
Matt, still mourning the lover he lost years ago, doesn’t want a mate, and Jesse doesn’t believe in mates. Yet neither of them can deny the pull they feel toward one another.
They’re still struggling with the situation when a hostile alpha claims Jesse. Matt has to fight to protect Jesse. First, though, he has to fight Jesse’s stubborn independence if he’s to win his heart.
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Product Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/an-impossible-mate
Reviewer: GiGi
Review: Misfit shifter Jesse Turner doesn’t want or need a mate, or so he thinks. He’s wandered off and gotten himself into some serious trouble, when Matt’s pack comes across him as an injured wolf on their property. Defensive Jesse makes a bad first impression by taking a bite out of one of Jesse’s pack members, but they still take him in, help him heal, feed him and he’s not so grateful. Once Matt recognizes him as his mate, a fairly predictable story ensues of reluctant attraction, denial, battle of wills, then battle from outside forces.
There is a lot of competition in shifter stories out there and not a ton of original ideas in the sub-genre. This did not stand out, but it was an entertaining read. Even though Jesse has to submit to Matt, he still keeps his spitfire personality and a bit of independence.
I’ll definitely have to check out the earlier part of this series.