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

He was of no use for anyone, no one would try to kidnap him for his skill or for ransom. Elora was his only relative, and neither of them had any money. Only one person would go through this much trouble to get his claws on him, only Varg.


Elora remained silent. “We’ll have to solve it.”


Eli looked around for the man who’d taken his arm. He stood a few feet away with a phone pressed to his ear. “Who’s he?”


“Who?” Elora followed his gaze. “Oh, Captain Kol Jaecar, my boss.”


She hesitated. “He’s not a wolf.”


“He still has claws.” Eli might not have seen them or experienced the slicing burn of them tearing through his skin, but he made damn sure to stay far away from anything that growled.


“I trust him with my life.” She looked into his eyes. “I trusted him with yours too. We’re not here on official cop business, we’re here because I told him, and he agreed to help.”


Chapter 13