Ali Hazelwood, whose past rom coms were STEM-focused and set in academia and the aerospace industry, sinks her teeth into paranormal romance with her latest book, BRIDE. I have loved all her previous novels with strong, nerdy, intelligent female characters fighting for their place in male-dominated fields. BRIDE is set in contemporary America where Vampyres, Werewolves, and Humans live in adjoining territories. Fragile peace exists by each government sending a child closely connected to the leader to live with the "enemy" as a collateral hostage to be killed if the other side breaks the truce. The balance is upset when a new human is elected who intends to change the status quo causing the Vampyres and Weres to arrange a marriage between the daughter of the Vampyre Council Chair to Lowe Moreland, Alpha of the Southwest Pack. Computer expert Misery Lark will do anything to find her foster sister including leaving her safe existence living among humans and allowing her father to use her again as a political pawn. Ali Hazelwood builds a world with new cultural rules for recognizable species and sexy, complex characters. The fast-paced story is full of espionage, intrigue, action, and sexual tension as the newlyweds determine where their loyalties lie. I can't tell if this is a stand-alone book but I hope the author will set another in this universe.
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.
Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again...
Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was….
Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf.
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