Years ago, empath Elijah Long made a bad decision, and he is still paying for it. He’s kept hidden from his abusive werewolf ex for years, but when he wakes in a dark room, cuffed to a wall, he knows he’s out of luck. Elora, his psychic sister, will come for him, he just has to endure long enough to give her a chance to find him. Captain Kol Jaecar of Rockshade’s Paranormal Investigations Department detests slow times at work, so when Elora wants time off to search for her brother, Kol treats it as if it’s a real case and starts an investigation. What he assumed was a brother not picking up when his sister called turns out to be something else. Elijah experiences people’s emotions so strongly, it prohibits him from living a normal life. Spending time in the city is out of the question, yet it’s where Elora takes him once she finds him. Elijah does his best to keep his distance, especially from the growling man Elora brought to his rescue. Elijah will never make the mistake of getting close to a shifter again. The moment Kol smells Elijah, he knows he’s his mate, but how to get close to someone who doesn’t want to be near you? The man who abused Elijah is still on the loose, and Kol calls in the entire team to hunt him down. But how are they to keep Elijah safe when he can’t be around people? And how will Kol stay sane if he can’t touch his mate?

Mind Scrambler

“My brother hasn’t returned my calls for the last two days. I didn’t have time to go check in on him during the soul eater case, but now I have to. Something is wrong.”


“You can’t…leave. Not now. Ric and Leo won’t be back for another couple of days, I can’t be here alone. What if an urgent case comes in?” He hoped an urgent case came in, he couldn’t sit and do nothing.


Elora smacked her palms against his desk, a reaction he never would’ve guessed her capable of. “My brother is missing!”


“How do you know? Because he doesn’t return your calls?” His muscles tensed. Elora wasn’t challenging his authority, not exactly, but her standing up to him had his cat sharpening its claws.


“He always picks up. Always. And he calls me every evening, he hasn’t for two nights now.”


“Your brother calls you every evening?” It was…not normal, was it?


Chapter 3