KEEPER: Pink Petals Books Presents-Shifters Series by Shaunta Grimes

Publisher Pink Petal Books
Date published October 2008
ISBN 978-0-9820050-4-0
Paranormal Shifters
E-book
Reviewed by Dawn

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For cat shifter Jude Felini, loving bird shifter Avery Dole was always a given. Until the one time she turns to a non-human and ends up getting him addicted to her. Jude has only one chance to save her from being incarcerated into the sanitarium that Jude’s mother died in. Now the race is on to find a way to save Avery from a fate similar to his mother’s and to bind her to him once and for all. Can the mythical Triad Sacrament bind Jude and Avery to the point where she won’t be a danger to any non-human?

KEEPER is the first book I have read from Pink Petal Books and I found it utterly engrossing, if a little short. It delves into the world of shifters and in this case, between a cat shifter and a bird shifter. Add in a council of shifters, sexual magic mystery and a whole lot of sizzling sex, you got the makings of one wild, pulse pounding ride.

Meet cat shifter Jude Felini. He has loved bird shifter Avery Dove for a long time yet never dealt with that attraction until she gets in trouble with the council of shifters for addicting a non-human to her. Now he has to race against the clock to save her from the fate his mother dealt with long ago: confinement in an isolated sanitarium for the rest of her life. Strong, tough, vulnerable and sexy as sin is Jude and this reviewer was panting as I finished reading KEEPER. Avery Dove is a bird shifter and has loved Jude forever and after waiting for him to finally have him realize that she is his one and only, she makes a bad decision to sleep with a human, one that gets addicted to her. Sweet, impulsive and full of unrequited love for Jude, Avery is a wonderful foil to Jude’s overweening ego sometimes. Both characters played off the other beautifully and Ms. Grimes delved deep into their hearts, opening up the vulnerabilities each have as well as the strength that measured their actions. With the right amount of love, patience and pride, both characters get their hearts desire by the time the last page was read.

With intriguing characters and a fast paced storyline, Ms. Grimes delivers a story that has the reader rooting for Jude to save Avery from a fate worse than death and for both of them to give into the passion that fairly crackled the air between them. I was pleasantly surprised by KEEPER and though it was a little short, since I wanted to see what happens with Jude and Avery next, Ms. Grimes delivers a wonderful addition to the shifter genre with KEEPER. If you like different shifters, engrossing story and sizzling passion that fairly explodes, grab KEEPER and get ready to find your own KEEPER!