It probably made things worse that she didn’t “get” her own gender. It was kind of hard to fit in when you were a tomboy with a higher IQ than that of your teachers. Even when she was a kid, she’d found making friends difficult, especially at school. In Roni’s case, it was because most people didn’t like her. In Nick’s case, it was because he didn’t like most people.

Sadly, she was very like her brother, Alpha of their recently formed Mercury Pack, in that she found social situations uncomfortable. In truth, Roni counted very few people as friends. She rarely hung out with anyone outside her pack. Odd that the Phoenix Pack’s Head Enforcer was with her. Sensing that the ringtone and the moans were coming from her left, Roni turned her head to find a male wolf shifter in the driver’s seat, eyes closed. But it was the various sounds that penetrated her mental fog: low moans, a phone ringing, a child crying, and strange voices arguing. Her brain distantly registered that the car kept leaning sideways, as if something was repeatedly pulling at it. Even the fact that her wolf was frantic didn’t disturb Roni in this dreamlike moment. There was only a feeling of weightlessness. And despite that she was pretty sure her head was bleeding, there was no pain.

Strangely, Roni felt no rush of panic, no fear. Clearly the fuck-up fairy had made an appearance. Through the cobwebs clouding her mind, Roni Axton realized that it wasn’t just she who was upside down.

Opening your eyes to find that you’re upside down can’t be good, can it? The Phoenix Pack Series by Suzanne Wright And for Marcus, claiming Roni once will mean needing her forever. Roni is the only one who’s ever seen past his shifter charm and discovered the man hiding beneath it. When a brutal attack by a jackal pack forces them to work together, it’s the perfect opportunity for Marcus to chip away at her defenses-until he falls into his own trap, completely unprepared for the intensity of their connection. No matter how aloof and unfazed Roni acts, Marcus can tell she wants him. Marcus has singled her out for seduction, and he wants to make her sit up and beg. Even still, his possessive gaze makes one thing clear. Marcus is a pack enforcer who oozes power, but Roni is lethal in her own right-nothing like the flirty females who flock around him. It happens whenever wolf shifter Roni Axton is near Marcus Fuller: a crackle of sexual awareness that’s intoxicating…and deeply annoying.

Dark Instincts by Suzanne Wright