Animal Senses Series by Jacqueline Paige

Her song renewed his hope.Born in captivity and kept in a tank, like an animal, Terah has never seen the outside world. She knows nothing of clan life or the odd rituals of normal behavior. Rescued, she is transported to a place where she gets to swim freely in water that isn’t surrounded by walls of glass—for the first time in her life. She had only ever heard about water like this from her mother and had never dreamt she would one day feel it flow over her... moreHer song renewed his hope.Born in captivity and kept in a tank, like an animal, Terah has never seen the outside world. She knows nothing of clan life or the odd rituals of normal behavior. Rescued, she is transported to a place where she gets to swim freely in water that isn’t surrounded by walls of glass—for the first time in her life. She had only ever heard about water like this from her mother and had never dreamt she would one day feel it flow over her. She doesn’t know that she’s different, even from her own kind or that by her very existence, she gives them all hope for the future.With the water clan near-extinct, Konner continues to search the globe for members forced into hiding to survive. Each time he finds another empty lake, he feels the pains of what his people have gone through.When one of his clan is rescued from the Tomas organization’s cruelty, he thinks maybe there’s a small chance that more of them are being kept as entertainment. With renewed hope, he sets things in motion to search for them. less

Fathered by the most hated man in the shifter world, Griffin is considered a half-breed and is welcome by neither the shifters nor one-forms. When he’s captured by the Alliance, he has the choice of remaining loyal to blood, despite loathing everything they represent, or helping the shifters and earning the chance of a life. All of his plans change when the animal his family suppressed for decades decides it’s time to take over and there is no going back to how Griffin was... moreFathered by the most hated man in the shifter world, Griffin is considered a half-breed and is welcome by neither the shifters nor one-forms. When he’s captured by the Alliance, he has the choice of remaining loyal to blood, despite loathing everything they represent, or helping the shifters and earning the chance of a life. All of his plans change when the animal his family suppressed for decades decides it’s time to take over and there is no going back to how Griffin was.Blaise is a mutt in her community. A mixed breed shifter marked by a darker skin pigmentation for all to plainly see. Having a family and happily ever after has never been part of her plans, and she made sure it could never happen. She survived her cruel childhood and is content with her adult life.The only thing she lives for is her job. As part of the Alliance’s Special Operations team, she spends her time on the road enforcing laws for her kind and bringing justice to those who break them. Her every moment for the last year has been bringing an end to the terrors her kind have faced at the hands of a human organization—anything and everything she can do to stop them, she will.When she is sent to watch over someone the Alliance captured, her life takes an unplanned turn. This man is nothing like she thought he’d be. It becomes a struggle to keep him alive and out of the hands of those that will do anything to get him back, but she’s determined to keep him safe.~In Jacqueline Paige's Animal Senses Series, hearts and tempers collide with wild passions and animal instincts.Animal shifters live among normal humans (one-forms) and have since the dawn of time. They blend in without any cause for notice until a crime organization finds out and starts hunting them to sell off across the globe.The shifter alliance is formed to protect all their kind. Their teams are working endlessly to rescue all of theirs from lives of servitude and shutting down any involvement in the underground organization. less

Uri was tired. His entire adult life, he’d worked with the Shifter Alliance to run a team from various clans to gather information on those that held, tortured, or did worse to every form of shifter.He came by his ability to hide and not be seen from years of experience. As a flier, his entire life was one big danger. Being caught, being eaten by something bigger, or even being shot from the sky, but none of those had taught him what he knew... moreUri was tired. His entire adult life, he’d worked with the Shifter Alliance to run a team from various clans to gather information on those that held, tortured, or did worse to every form of shifter.He came by his ability to hide and not be seen from years of experience. As a flier, his entire life was one big danger. Being caught, being eaten by something bigger, or even being shot from the sky, but none of those had taught him what he knew. His clan had left their area to find a safer location and he’d gotten left behind. To this day, he didn’t know if it was intentional or something that had happened in the panic of moving because of neighboring clans disappearing.After a few years of barely surviving on his own, he’d been found by a clan in Manitoba, and they took him in. Eventually, a new clan of his kind adopted him. He was grateful to them for it, and it was the reason he spent more hours in the sky than on the ground helping the Alliance. All shifters, regardless of clan type, should have a place to call home. They should be able to live their lives without crippling fear, and he planned to help make it that way, no matter how long it took.Oryn lived a solo life in the mountains. When she wasn’t in the sky riding the wind, she stayed out of sight in a small cabin so far off the grid that she didn’t even have power.She never spoke to people or looked up when she was in town for supplies. Most of which she had to steal, but at this point, she was willing to do anything to survive. She strived to be invisible until the day came when she could get her revenge on the man who had destroyed her life. At his hand, she lost her parents, two sisters, and brother. The day she had escaped and flown from his reach was the day that had assured him a painful death.While lurking near a clan of crown eagles, she’d overheard talk of some group called the Alliance and how they were going to save them all. She had almost lost form and fallen from the tree because they were so naive and ridiculous, waiting on someone who was never going to come.Years of tracking down her target finally yielded her his location. Now, she just had to wait and observe and figure out how to get inside and end that sick man’s life. No one was going to stop her from achieving it. No one. less

If life were fair, Webb would have worked in the entertainment industry. He was sure of it. A smile and pleasant words went a long way in bringing someone a moment of peace and joy, and he liked nothing better than just that.Life wasn’t fair, and at times, for his kind, it wasn’t just either. He was a shifter, as were all of his friends. They weren’t from the same clans, but to him, they were family.He had watched lives destroyed all around him, and it broke his heart... moreIf life were fair, Webb would have worked in the entertainment industry. He was sure of it. A smile and pleasant words went a long way in bringing someone a moment of peace and joy, and he liked nothing better than just that.Life wasn’t fair, and at times, for his kind, it wasn’t just either. He was a shifter, as were all of his friends. They weren’t from the same clans, but to him, they were family.He had watched lives destroyed all around him, and it broke his heart. One form or two, it shouldn’t matter; all could live in the same world and find happiness. At least that’s what he told himself when he wasn’t transporting women who were scared both physically and mentally for the rest of their lives. Or when he wasn’t taking men who had lived their lives with collars around their necks to a new facility to hopefully one day make them whole again.Life was cruel for his kind, and he had no other choice than to do his part to end that. For months, he’d been working with teams that were slowly shutting down the underground market that spanned worldwide, who traded, sold, and killed all types of shifters.It wasn’t going to be easy, but he was in it until the end. After that, he hoped to find someone special with whom to spend the rest of his life, making happy memories and having good times.Rhogue was a half-breed, but she didn’t care. She lived with the people who had raised her since she was a baby. They weren’t her blood, but they were family.Most others didn’t like the groups she moved around with. They were drifters who did what was necessary to survive. It hadn’t been an easy life, but they all looked out for each other.Halfway through the winter, the leader of another one of the drifter groups approached the one in charge of her adopted family. The Shifter Alliance was giving them permission to live in homes as long as they helped them keep watch for traffickers after any shifter. At first, she’d been left behind and was told they would find a way to get her there. They didn’t know how the Alliance was going to take to a half-breed human that couldn’t shift. Rhogue understood it was their chance and had been happy to stay back until they came for her.That had been a few months ago, now, and her whole world was different here. In all the good ways. The woman who ran the factory had been very accepting of her and had even asked her to help out with some young girls she was responsible for. They’d been taken and kept on an island by the traffickers, and until they found the clan they came from, Blaise was in charge. She envied the fierce warrior woman. She knew what she wanted and wasn’t afraid to do something about it.A permanent home, food, and warmth, what more could a girl ever need? less