Reasonable Temperature (Bad Little Falls #4)
E.C. Dane
Hugh Barnett is a walrus, an omega, and the executive chef at one of Boston's best restaurants. He's also the new owner of a crumbling Victorian on a point in Bad Little Falls, Maine, inherited from a great-aunt who once told him he was too fat and put an apology in her will.
The house has no working stove, plumbing from 1894, and a radiator that sounds like a foghorn. It also has a police chief who drives past it twice a day and hasn't stopped.
Shane Haugen is a polar bear, an alpha, and the quietest man in town. He's maintained that house for six years. He knows where every valve is and which floorboards creak. He's been driving past it for three weeks and he hasn't stopped because stopping would require words and Shane doesn't have words for what he wants because Shane has never wanted anything.
Then a pipe bursts at 2 AM, Hugh calls the station, and Shane drives to Shore Road in three minutes instead of four.
The bond hits in the flooded basement. The heat follows. The town knows before breakfast.
Now there's a walrus building a twelve-seat auberge, a polar bear learning pastry, a Molteni range that arrives on a flatbed, a lobsterman with a napkin schedule, a Shiba Inu from Boston who has opinions about the thermostat, and a house that stays at forty-eight degrees because two arctic mammals don't need heat and the only person who complains is the peacock who shifted in the living room hoping to trigger a bond with someone, anyone, even though the only people home were two bonded mates and a very cold chef de cuisine.
The temperature is reasonable. It's always been reasonable.
Reasonable Temperature is a cozy, high-heat M/M shifter romance with fated mates, omegaverse, small-town meddling, a competence fantasy in the kitchen, mpreg, and a guaranteed HEA. Fourth in the Bad Little Falls series. Includes a bonus short story and a prologue reprinting "The House on the Water."
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