Braxton “Brax” O'Hara is a shifter, a PI ... and an art thief. He has no problem with being all three. As a matter of fact, he likes his less than legal job. Kyle Grayson is a member of an all-shifter art crimes team. He does everything within his power to catch the thieves he's after, and believes he's found his next quarry -- Brax O'Hara. Things take a turn for the worse when Russo, Brax's partner in crime, wants him to retrieve some blackmail pictures instead of a piece of art. At the same time, Kyle comes into the picture. When the two men meet, they discover they both know the blackmailer -- and they both hate him, too, for different reasons. Can they stop Russo, a powerful Alpha shifter? More to the point, can they deal with their attraction to each other when they have nothing in common except Russo?

Nothing In Common, Except ...

“Now what do we do?” Kyle asked when they’d left the restaurant.


“Take a walk, or a run?” Brax suggested. “I’ve been going back to my favorite spot, now that I know it’s safe, again.”


“A run sounds good. We can work off dinner.”


Brax grinned. “Then stop for a late-night snack before you go back to the hotel and I go home.”


While Kyle wasn’t certain he liked the idea they wouldn’t spend the night together, he knew it was better if they didn’t—yet. “Let’s see this favorite spot,” he replied. “We’ll debate eating again, afterward.”


Brax drove, since Kyle had taken a cab to the restaurant. A short while later, they left the car where he told Kyle he usually did, in a parking lot behind an all-night diner, and they teleported the rest of the way, deep into the preserve.


“No lake, I’m afraid,” Brax said. “But no people either, and only the rare wolf, that I try to avoid.”


Chapter 44