Prickly By Nature (36 page)
Portland Pack Chronicles: Book One
Some people might call Avery Babineaux a prick. He’s a hedgehog shifter from an old-money Louisiana family, with a penchant for expensive shoes and a reputation for being a judgmental snob. His attitude is why he and his fated mate are estranged. Not that Avery cares. He doesn’t want to be mated to some blue-collar werewolf anyway. Or so he keeps telling himself.
No werewolf likes to be looked down upon, least of all Dylan Green. He doesn’t need a mate, especially not some snotty hedgehog who sneers at his custom motorcycle shop and calls him a grease monkey. But when Avery gets into trouble with a shady loan shark, Dylan can’t stand by and let him be hurt—whether he wants the brat or not.
Yet once Dylan steps into Avery’s world, he realizes there’s more to Avery than his prickly exterior, and that unexpected vulnerability calls to Dylan’s protective instincts. The sassy little hedgehog needs a keeper, and despite their horrible first impressions, Dylan starts to believe he might be the wolf for the job.
“...the book was a delight... it’s a fantasy, but these two authors made the storyline so credible.”
—Three Books Over the Rainbow
“It’s a wonderful read, and am anxiously awaiting the sequel. ”
—The Jena Wade
“When they do finally get together they are hot and there is knotting, you have to love a book with knotting…”
—Prism Book Alliance
“Character driven as well as plot driven,
Prickly Business
is an exceptional shifter novel in the m/m genre, and left me eager to read more…”
—Happy Ever After (
USA Today
)
“I did enjoy it... people who love ‘who dunnit’ books will truly enjoy it.”
—Reviews by Jessewave
PIPER VAUGHN
wrote her first love story at eleven and never looked back. Since then, she’s known that writing in some form was exactly what she wanted to do. A reader at the core, Piper loves nothing more than getting lost in a great book—fantasy, young adult, romance, she loves them all (and has a two-thousand book library to prove it!). She grew up in Chicago in an ethnically diverse neighborhood and loves to put faces and characters of every ethnicity in her stories so her fictional worlds are as colorful as the real one. Above all, she believes that everyone needs a little true love in their life… even if it’s only in a book.
Website: pipervaughn.com
Facebook: Piper Vaughn
Twitter: @pipervaughn
KENZIE CADE
was born and raised in the South where she spends her days in the field of private medicine observing interesting people and committing them to memory for later use. When she isn’t reading, experimenting with recipes, or being distracted by social media, Kenzie spends time with her family, friends, and fur-babies, who like to keep her company while she writes. Writing to keep the fictional voices at bay, Kenzie enjoys the journeys her characters travel to find their happy endings, and she loves the challenge of writing a great love story.
E-mail: [email protected]
Blog: kenziecade.wordpress.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kenziecade.author
Twitter: @thekenziecade
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DREAMSPINNER PRESS
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Hummingbird House
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With Piper Vaughn
PORTLAND PACK CHRONICLES
Prickly Business
Prickly by Nature
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DREAMSPINNER PRESS
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of author imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Prickly By Nature
© 2015 Piper Vaughn and Kenzie Cade.
Cover Art
© 2015 Reese Dante.
http://www.reesedante.com
Cover content is for illustrative purposes only and any person depicted on the cover is a model.
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ISBN: 978-1-62380-070-3
Digital ISBN: 978-1-62380-161-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015949564
First Edition November 2015
Printed in the United States of America