Fierce Survivor: Fierce Mates: Sierra Pride, #7
By Liza Street
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An arranged marriage, an old grudge, and a whopping element of danger make for a heady Fierce Mates installment!
Cora Fournier can't seem to get out from under her family's watchful eye. Granted, her whole stint in captivity with the Nevada Pride has made everyone feel a mite overprotective of her. Still, she's ready to move past her trauma until Jerome, alpha of the Nevada Pride, shows up with his son, Tyler. He wants to make peace with the Fourniers, and he's offering them Tyler as a loyal worker and pride member. There's one catch—according to pride law, in order to stay with the Fourniers, Tyler has to become Cora's husband.
Tyler Brooks loved Cora all along. Tortured by his inability to win a challenge against his brother, who'd been intent on keeping her in captivity, Tyler has spent the last two years feeling weak and useless. Now that they're free of his brother, he has a chance to prove to Cora that whether or not this marriage is on paper only, they belong together, and he will fight to keep her.
This sexy shapeshifter novelette includes a happily-ever-after, as well as explicit love scenes and naughty language. It is intended for adults. The ending leads into the next book (Fierce Lover), but the main story line is resolved and this can be read as a stand-alone.
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Fierce Survivor - Liza Street
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FIERCE SURVIVOR
Book 7 of the Sierra Pride
by Liza Street
Copyright 2016 Liza Street. All rights reserved.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental or used fictitiously.
Chapter One
CORA WIPED HER BEER foam mustache off her lip with her wrist, then she grabbed the next knife.
This had been her brother Maverick’s idea, and the stakes were high—if she won, she could move out to the converted apartment above the garage. If she lost, she’d be stuck in her and Justine’s childhood bedroom, right next to Gabriel and Miranda’s room which had not nearly enough soundproofing for a couple who seemed to be having sex all the freaking time...and one of them was her brother. Gross.
The whole mate
thing in the shapeshifter world? She wanted nothing to do with it, not anymore.
Her hands were cold, so she blew hot air onto her fingers.
You can do this,
Maverick said. Eyes on the target. Deep breaths.
Cora snorted and gave him her most contemptuous look. Stop pretending to be my coach—I am a knife-throwing master.
The beer had made her cocky, so she listened to Maverick and took a deep, steadying breath and eyed the target. She and Maverick had carved it together. They were the two woodworkers of the family, and they’d had a blast trying out a new dremel. The finished product was a target made from a round of wood with images of a spider, a lumpy-looking thing that was supposed to be a cockroach, and a wasp—all things that Cora hated. She’d practiced until the wasp was nothing more than wings, and the spider had been all but gouged out in the middle. She was good, but not as good as Gabriel.
I can’t believe we’re even playing for this,
she said.
Gabriel took a swig of his beer. I’m not ready for you to be out of the house. We just got you back.
Yeah, like four months ago. And does the garage really count as ‘out of the house’? Come on, Gabes, I think it’s time I got my freedom.
Then you must earn it,
Gabriel said with a sadistic grin. Spider, fourth leg from the right.
She weighed the knife in her hand and poised to throw.
Wait, wait!
Maverick called. You’re supposed to take another drink.
Sh—shoot,
Cora said, correcting herself when she saw June, Blake and Hera’s daughter, watching her intently. June wasn’t even one yet, so probably wouldn’t understand, but Cora would rather bite her tongue than be the one to teach the twins swear words. Well, until they were teenagers, maybe.
It was weird coming back and seeing kids here. Her pride had changed since she’d been away. Her brothers had mates now. Jude and his mate, Ava, had a daughter, and Blake and his mate, Hera, had twins.
She took the drink. All she had to do was stick this last throw, and she’d have her own little apartment. No more pillow talk filtering through the walls, no more need for sleeping with ear plugs so she wouldn’t be awakened by the bed creaking in Gabriel and Miranda’s room.
Jude, Ava, and Chloe had their own place a few miles away. Blake and Hera had built another house on the property, farther down into the meadow. Maverick and Kate were still in college and they had their own apartment. Justine and her mate, Mateo, lived in Montana, running one of the mountain resorts Mateo’s family owned.
True, there were plenty of rooms in the house, and Cora didn’t have to sleep in her old room; she could take Blake’s old room, for instance, or Jude’s. But it was time that Cora got some distance from her family, even if that distance was no farther than an apartment above the garage. She was tired of being treated like a teenager, tired of being coddled and protected. Yeah, being trapped in Nevada had been awful, but it was over, and she was ready for everyone to move on.
Exhaling, Cora relaxed her stance. She stared at the spider’s leg. Pulling her arm back and stepping forward, she exhaled to throw the knife.
Just as she was releasing it, though, an engine gunned down the drive. Cora turned, startled, and the throw went wide, lodging in the fencing behind the target.
Maverick gave a big belly laugh, his blue eyes twinkling, until his mate, Kate, punched him in the arm.
She’s too easy to startle,
he said with another laugh. I can’t help myself.
Shut up. It’s because of what she’s been through,
Kate whispered.
Kate was human, and was always forgetting that shifters—especially mountain lion shifters—could hear everything.
Boo!
Maverick said.
Kate smacked him again. Cora gave him a scorching look, but inside she had to admit, she preferred Maverick’s tactic of getting her used to normal life again. Most of her brothers and their mates tiptoed around her, trying not to make any sudden noises, making sure to give her plenty of space and lots of room to roam. She’d been cooped up in Bryan Brooks’s apartment for six months, not able to run, having to shift into her lion indoors. Instead of babying her, though, Maverick challenged her, and she appreciated that.
That was why, as soon as Maverick graduated from college, the two of them would start a carpentry business together. They both had good eyes and together their skills would only