Bad Little Falls Series by E.C. Dane

BITE FORCE A Bad Little Falls Shifter Romance. He's a hammerhead shark. She called him a mermaid. The internet agreed. He will die mad about it. Greg Dunbar is a hammerhead shark with a rescue boat, a face like a Picasso, and a filing system for things he doesn't want to feel. Nate Ferreira is a jaguar who builds furniture, speaks in single sentences, and wears three layers in July because Maine is a liar about the weather. Greg has been walking past Nate's shop every night for three weeks... moreBITE FORCE A Bad Little Falls Shifter Romance. He's a hammerhead shark. She called him a mermaid. The internet agreed. He will die mad about it. Greg Dunbar is a hammerhead shark with a rescue boat, a face like a Picasso, and a filing system for things he doesn't want to feel. Nate Ferreira is a jaguar who builds furniture, speaks in single sentences, and wears three layers in July because Maine is a liar about the weather. Greg has been walking past Nate's shop every night for three weeks. Nate has been counting every second of every pass. One night at the bar. One night that was supposed to be a one-time thing. Then the filing system broke, and the coffee started showing up, and the shelf got built, and the jaguar carved a hammerhead shark out of walnut because he wanted to get the sensory pores right. Now there's a baby neither of them planned, a bond neither of them has confirmed, and an entire town that knew before they did because the hummingbird smells everything and the skunk confirms everything and that's just how it works. Greg is afraid they'll shift and nothing will happen. Nate is not doing this for one more day. Bite Force is a high-heat M/M omegaverse shifter romance with fated mates, small-town meddling, a nine-minute beer, and a guaranteed HEA. Third in the Bad Little Falls series. Includes a bonus short story. less

A Michelin-star chef. A police chief who bakes at 4 AM. A house at forty-eight degrees. 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... moreA Michelin-star chef. A police chief who bakes at 4 AM. A house at forty-eight degrees. 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. ". less

He's been saying it with flowers for ten years. Nobody's asked the elephant how he is in eighteen. Miles Pratt is a skunk, an alpha, and the most careful man in Bad Little Falls. He runs Stems, the flower shop on Dock Street. He changes the library's flowers every Thursday based on the librarian's mood. He has been in love with the librarian for ten years and has expressed this exclusively through floral arrangements because words require closing a distance that everyone else keeps open... moreHe's been saying it with flowers for ten years. Nobody's asked the elephant how he is in eighteen. Miles Pratt is a skunk, an alpha, and the most careful man in Bad Little Falls. He runs Stems, the flower shop on Dock Street. He changes the library's flowers every Thursday based on the librarian's mood. He has been in love with the librarian for ten years and has expressed this exclusively through floral arrangements because words require closing a distance that everyone else keeps open. Bernard Willoughby is an elephant, an omega, and the town librarian. He remembers everything. Every checkout. Every overdue book. Every flower delivery. Every time Miles walked past the window. He has never once been asked what he needs, because elephants carry things and the carrying looks like fine. Miles doesn't flinch. Bernard doesn't forget. When Miles walks into the library on a Tuesday instead of a Thursday and asks for a book about elephants, Bernard's hands shake for the first time in eighteen years of shelving. Then there's a clearing. A bond. A biological event that Wyatt files as a level-three biohazard. A produce section incident that happened in 2016 and did not, this time, repeat. And a town that knew before either of them did, because the town always knows, because the town has a hummingbird. Defense Mechanism is a cozy, high-heat M/M shifter romance with fated mates, flower language, a perfect memory, a produce section that has recovered, and a guaranteed HEA. Fifth in the Bad Little Falls series. Includes a bonus short story. less