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    Cat of a Different Color: Halle Pumas, #3
    Cat of a Different Color: Halle Pumas, #3
    Cat of a Different Color: Halle Pumas, #3
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    Cat of a Different Color: Halle Pumas, #3

    By Dana Marie Bell

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    He'll do whatever it takes to protect his mate.

    Dr. Adrian Giordano is quite happy with the way his life is going. His two best friends are happily mated, and he’s still sanely single. He has friends, a thriving business, and the occasional Saturday night date. Then Sheridan Montgomery comes to town. His inner Puma responds to the husky-voiced snow princess in a way that tells him his life is about to be turned upside down.

    Sheri can’t believe her luck could be this bad. Instinct tells her Adrian is her mate, but the last thing she wants to do is drag him into her messy life. She’s on the run from a big bad wolf—an ex who won’t take no for an answer. Worse, if he catches her, he’s got the teeth (and the Pack!) to take what he wants.

    She doesn’t stand a chance alone, but with her friends—and the persistent Adrian—by her side, she might just survive.

    If her ex doesn’t eat the yummy Dr. Giordano for lunch, that is...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDana Marie Bell
    Release dateJun 10, 2017
    ISBN9781946966278
    Cat of a Different Color: Halle Pumas, #3
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    Dana Marie Bell

    Dana Marie Bell lives with her husband Dusty, their two maniacal children, an evil ice-cream stealing cat and two dogs who think barking should become the next Olympic event. You can learn more about Dana and her addiction to series at www.danamariebell.com.

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      It has been a little while since I read this book but here is what I recall...

      I love the series!! Yummy romance involving shifters. Plenty of steamy action and a touch of humor!

      Definitely a series to get into! I started it and didn't stop until I reached the last book that was released! I am always looking for the next book!

      If you like steamy shifter romances this is a series to look into!!!!
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      Doctor and puma-shifter Adrian is shocked to discover that newcomer to the Pride, Sheri, is his mate. Sheri, who is legally blind due to albinism, is seeking shelter with the Halle Pride because her psycho ex-boyfriend, a wolf-shifter, is still stalking her even though she's been on the run for years. Adrian has the alpha-hero thing going on, but he's not a jerk about it. Sheri is sweet, but not a pushover. I liked them both as characters, and I like their relationship together. The rest of the Halle gang makes supporting appearances.

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    Cat of a Different Color - Dana Marie Bell

    He'll do whatever it takes to protect his mate.

    Halle Pumas Book 3

    Dr. Adrian Giordano is quite happy with the way his life is going. His two best friends are happily mated, and he’s still sanely single. He has friends, a thriving business, and the occasional Saturday night date. Then Sheridan Montgomery comes to town. His inner Puma responds to the husky-voiced snow princess in a way that tells him his life is about to be turned upside down.

    Sheri can’t believe her luck could be this bad. Instinct tells her Adrian is her mate, but the last thing she wants to do is drag him into her messy life. She’s on the run from a big bad wolf—an ex who won’t take no for an answer. Worse, if he catches her, he’s got the teeth (and the Pack!) to take what he wants.

    She doesn’t stand a chance alone, but with her friends—and the persistent Adrian—by her side, she might just survive.

    If her ex doesn’t eat the yummy Dr. Giordano for lunch, that is...

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    This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental.

    Dana Marie Bell

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    Cat of a Different Color

    Copyright © 2008 by Dana Marie Bell

    ISBN: 978-1-946966-27-8

    Edited by Angela James

    Cover by Rocking Book Covers

    All Rights Are Reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

    First Edition electronic publication by Samhain Publishing, Ltd.: November 2008

    Second Edition electronic publication by Dana Marie Bell: June 2017

    Contents

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Chapter Eight

    Epilogue

    About the Author

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    Dedication

    To Mom, who taught me the important things in life, like That black doesn’t go with that black and Never let your children know you aren’t psychic.

    To Dad, who grins whenever he hears about my work, even though he refuses to read it. For which I am eternally grateful, because that would just be... wrong, on so many levels.

    To Memom, who encourages my madness and likes to know what I’m working on next.

    To Stephanie, for pointing out some mistakes I’d made with Jerry and his responses, and gave me more insight into what it’s like to be legally blind.

    And to my husband, Dusty. Happy tenth anniversary, sweetheart. Every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step toward finding you.

    —Message in a Bottle

    Chapter One

    God, I hate winter. If it wasn’t for the hurricanes I’d move to Florida.

    Adrian knocked on the hotel room door and sighed, rolling his eyes at the sight of his breath in the air. He hoped the girl (Cheryl? Shelly? No, Sheri!) didn’t keep him waiting too long. Adrian shivered and wished desperately he was back in his own warm home, with a roaring fire and a good book.

    He’d been volunteered by Max to pick up the newest Pride member. Tonight was supposed to be her formal introduction, though she’d already been approved by both the Alphas and the Betas. Only Max could get Adrian to stand outside in the cold like this, but that was okay. He planned on exacting his own kind of revenge. He grinned, thinking of all the ways he could encourage Emma’s pre-marital madness.

    The Alpha’s mate had gone completely insane, post-it bombing the office with little notes and to-do lists. She either kept forgetting that he shared desk space with Max or enjoyed tormenting him with wedding cake photos. It was enough to send a confirmed bachelor into sugar shock.

    Adrian didn’t want a mate. He smiled to himself. His best friends had both become pussy-whipped, all in the space of weeks. Emma said Jump! and the big strong Alpha asked not only how high but which direction. As for Simon, if Becky so much as sighed he panicked. Watching the two strongest members of the Pride buckle under the Breast Brigade made him all the more determined to stay sanely single.

    Just a moment, a soft voice called from inside. It sounded shy and sweet, and Adrian’s Puma raised its head curiously. He could feel his dick hardening slightly at the sound of her velvety voice.

    What the hell? he muttered, frowning at the closed door. Shrugging, he tried to dismiss his body’s reaction.

    Who is it?

    That soft voice sent a shaft of pure lust through his veins. He twitched his shoulders and tried to dismiss the low growling sound of his Puma. Adrian Giordano. I’m the friend Max said would be picking you up tonight. Why the hell the woman couldn’t drive herself was a mystery, but he’d been so busy he’d forgotten to ask.

    He could hear the locks disengage and tensed. His Puma let loose a low growl he’d never heard from it before, and he had to clamp his lips shut to keep it from emerging from his human lips. His eyes flashed, the colors of the setting sun turning from red to gold as he lost the red/green color spectrum. He forced them to change back, closing his eyes just as the door to the room swung open.

    Hi, Dr. Giordano. I’m Sheri Montgomery.

    He opened his eyes to find a snow princess staring back at him. She had the palest, softest-looking blonde hair he’d ever seen. The nearly white locks fell in delicate waves just past her shoulders. Pale, crystal blue eyes surrounded by equally pale lashes glowed in a face that could make the angels weep. She was small and dainty, the top of her head barely reaching his shoulder. Her breasts were perfect for her slight frame. He had the inexplicable urge to pick her up, toss her over his shoulder and carry her off to his den where no one else would ever see her. Would ever want her.

    Mine.

    Adrian’s eyes widened as his Puma snarled in his mind. Crap.

    She tilted her head to the side and sort of off center. She lowered the hand he hadn’t even realized she’d raised in greeting. Excuse me? Is everything all right?

    Uh, no, everything’s fine. He hoped to God she couldn’t see the erection straining against his trousers.

    Would you like to come in for a moment while I get my coat?

    Adrian gulped as she smiled, sweetly uncertain.

    Can I come in for a year? Or two? How about I just come? He did his best to bludgeon the voice of lust to death, but it refused to die. He wanted to throw her down on the ugly green carpet and fuck her until neither one of them could walk for a week. Maybe a month. Try years, his Puma purred. Sure, thanks.

    It didn’t even occur to him that he was already thinking of her as his.

    She opened the

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