Book Title: THE FAKE MATE
Character Name: Noah Taylor
How would you describe your family or your childhood?
It was…fine? I’ve never been the sort of person that needs an abundance of attention, to the dismay of my mother. I would say that I was a quiet child. I didn’t have very many friends, but I suppose that’s because I was always more focused on my schoolwork.
What is your greatest talent?
I can recall most city capitals from memory. Foreign ones too.
Significant other?
No. Why is that relevant?
Biggest challenge in relationships?
I’m not the best at reading people, so I have often been told that I’m oblivious when it comes to a woman's feelings. I don’t mean to be. And also, ah, well. Given what I am—this is confidential, right? Anyway, given that I’m alpha, there are certain parts of my anatomy that make physical relationships…difficult. At times. I’ve been told that I’m…much larger than most.
Where do you live?
Denver, Colorado
Do you have any enemies?
I can’t exactly give you a headcount, but it’s my understanding that I am not the most…liked person in the hospital. I don’t really like small talk. Or pleasantries. Or people.
How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place?
I’m not sure I understand the question. Do you mean in a metaphorical sense or more literally? I suppose if it’s the former, I am mostly content with where I am in life. I’ve had an excellent career. I don’t have any complaints, really. More literally, I enjoy the snow. One of my favorite places to be is in my large chair by my woodstove. Although sometimes I guess it can get a bit lonely. There’s something melancholic about heavy snow, don’t you think?
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
I’m not fond of the idea of being responsible for keeping something alive, unless of course they’re one of my patients.
What do you do for a living?
I’m an interventional cardiologist. I was promoted to the head of my department last year.
Greatest disappointment?
I think had I applied myself more, I could have graduated med school a year earlier than I did.
Greatest source of joy?
The History Channel often does long-running series. Those are fun.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
I like to read. There’s a fascinating book on medical practices in the eighteenth century that I’ve been working through.
What is your greatest personal failing, in your view?
Nothing comes to mind.
What keeps you awake at night?
Nothing comes to mind. Although, I recently read a study on insomnia that links insomnia to low levels of a chemical in the brain called gamma aminobutyric acid. It’s an interesting read, if you’d like the link.
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
Anonymous tips, it would seem.
Is there something that you need or want that you don’t have? For yourself or for someone important to you?
What a strange question. What could I possibly need?
Why don’t you have it? What is in the way?
This is very invasive. I was told this was a research study. It’s feeling more like therapy.
Two wolf shifters agree to be fake mates but unexpectedly find something real in this steamy paranormal romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson.
Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail—she hasn’t had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother’s obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she’s met someone. That is, until she blurts out the name of the first man she sees and the last man she would ever date: Noah Taylor, the big bad wolf of Denver General.
Noah Taylor, interventional cardiologist and all around grump, has spent his entire life hiding what he is. With outdated stigmas surrounding unmated alphas that have people wondering if they still howl at the moon, Noah has been careful to keep his designation under wraps. It’s worked for years, until an anonymous tip has everything coming to light. Noah is left with two options: come clean to the board and risk his career—or find himself a mate. The chatty, overly friendly ER doctor asking him to be her fake boyfriend on the same day he’s called to meet the board has to be kismet, right?
Mackenzie will keep her grandmother off her back, and Noah will get a chance to prove he can continue to work without a real mate—a mutually beneficial business transaction, they both rationalize. But when the fake-mate act turns into a very real friends-with-benefits arrangement, lines start to blur, and they quickly realize love is a whole different kind of animal.
Women's Fiction Family Life [Berkley, On Sale: December 5, 2023, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593549377 / eISBN: 9780593549384]
Lana Ferguson is a sex-positive nerd whose works never shy from spice or sass. A faded Fabio book cover found its way into her hands at fifteen, and she’s never been the same since. When she isn’t writing, you can find her randomly singing show tunes, arguing over which Batman is superior, and subjecting her friends to the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings. Lana lives mostly in her own head but can sometimes be found chasing her corgi through the coppice of the great American outdoors.
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