The only thing worse than having a hot neighbor you’re too intimidated to talk to is accidentally hitting his cat with your car. Felix Lane was perfectly content to spend the rest of his days with Sunny, his canary life companion, in their quiet little corner of the suburbs. But then Kirk Shoo with his unusual eyes moved in across the street, and Felix’s carefully constructed life is starting to unravel. When your every bad-boy fantasy lingers at the mailbox, stands too close and smells too damn good, what’s an under-appreciated administrative assistant to do? Besides sneak out the backdoor to go to work? But when Kirk’s cat runs out in front of Felix on his way home, he has no choice but to face the music and his dream man. Unless ... What starts as a tragic accident turns into something far more bizarre. And when Felix’s backyard begins to look like a pet cemetery, he has no choice but to come clean. That is, if he can manage to find his sexy neighbor at all.

Nine Stones

Kirk chuckled. “He will make it hard for them, that’s for sure. Is your mother living nearby?”


“Yeah.” He gestured toward the woods behind their houses. “She lives over at Birch Grove.”


“Perhaps we should inform her too. How no one has discovered her is beyond me, but I know many who’d want to meet her. Not only is she a potential mate, but she’s also given birth to one litter continuing the bloodline. It might be hard to believe, but cats are big on genetics, she’ll be revered.”


“Litter?” Mom had given birth to two babies, not a litter.


“Ah…yeah. We’re almost always born as twins or triplets, and so are the potential mates. Had your father stayed with your mother and given her more children she’d likely have another pair of twins.” Kirk had a wistful look on his face, but it made Felix frown. He remembered the man in the restaurant, the one who’d growled when he’d talked about how their father had walked out on his mother. “Mom…Mom’s a…how do you know it isn’t my dad who—”


Chapter 27