The Mating Game

The Mating Game is a standalone paranormal romance by USA Today bestselling author Lana Ferguson. Tess Covington has lived her whole life as a regular human, so when a trip to the Denver ER reveals she's a late-presenting omega wolf shifter, it upends everything. With her family's finances in freefall and a TV contract riding on finishing a renovation job, Tess can't afford to slow down, even as her newly emerged wolf pushes her toward her first heat and warns her to stay far away from alpha shifters.

Alpha wolf Hunter Barrett has built his life around routine and around avoiding omegas, ever since one broke his heart. When Tess turns up at his failing lodge smelling like exactly the kind of trouble he's spent years avoiding, he can't just send her away, not with his business on the line and no other options left. Forced into each other's orbit, the two try to keep things professional, but the pull between them only grows harder to resist. Their arrangement has an expiration date from the start, and both know it, but that doesn't make it any easier to let go when the job — and whatever this is between them — comes to an end.