Mateo, a jaguar nagual descended from Mayan shamans, attends the Northern Nevada Con-fur-ence furry convention to hide in plain sight. Who will look twice at a long, black tail and inhuman yellow eyes when there are neon huskies and dancing dragons around? There Mateo meets Dazi, a mountain lion skin-walker who is at the con with friends from his Shoshone-Paiute reservation. They want to find out if the furries are close to stumbling across their tribe of shifters. When these two big cats rub up against each other, their cultures collide in a way neither Mateo nor Dazi could predict. But Mateo has trouble being entirely human around his alluring new companion, and Dazi puts his tribe at risk when he reveals their secrets to an outsider. Can Mateo and Dazi overcome their natural secretive and bestial instincts to find their purr-fect ending?

Beasts Like Us

“…so nervous. I’ll need to get in line two hours early if I even want a chance of meeting him, but I wanted to…”


“…see if we could host a panel next year with animal-themed yoga poses. Everyone would…


“…the parade? I don’t think this counts as a real fursuit so I don’t think they’d let me join.”


Kesi and Kuhma took one side of the table, leaving Dazi to sit beside Mateo. It wouldn’t have been so bad if Kuhma hadn’t mentioned jaguar pheromones earlier. Every breath Dazi took was laden with Mateo’s scent, and Dazi had to admit to himself that he liked it. He smelled so virile, so strong, so entrancing, even his mountain lion figuratively lifted its head in his direction.


Chapter 28