Baiting the Royal — Nancy Corrigan

It's hard enough to work a murder case where the stakes are personal. This crime spree has forced me to partner up with my fated mate while we try to keep our hands to ourselves…

Lyla
As a coroner, my job is to give a voice to the voiceless, but the latest body on my slab raises questions someone out there doesn't want me to answer. To make matters worse, my sister Sam's attacker is back in town, and I have no idea if he's involved.

Desperate for answers, I'm willing to break the rules and go it alone this one time. Then Uri, a Royal from the Alexander pride and a by-the-book agent, helps me out of one tough scrape, and now he thinks he can convince me to stay in my lab, where it's safer. Ha.

I can see the pain underneath his protective streak, however. I want him to let me in, badly enough that it's hard to stay professional whenever I'm around him. But I can't just stop when I'm a breath away from the answers. Not after what happened to Sam.

Uri
Trying to keep Lyla safe is proving to be the most difficult task I've encountered as an agent. Speaking from personal experience, Lyla simply doesn't understand what happens when shifters break the rules: people suffer and die.

I won't let that happen to her. Not when sparring with her is the closest I've come to feeling alive in a long time.

Unfortunately, the increasing body count makes confronting my craving for her a dangerous complication. And in this shifter-eat-shifter world, even one distraction can be a deadly mistake.

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Baiting the Royal has a content rating = late night Cable TV (eg. Game of Thrones, Outlander, The Witcher, The Handmaid's Tale). This book is the Mainstream Fiction version of Uri by Dana Archer, the Paranormal Suspense (clean) pen name of Nancy Corrigan.

If you prefer closed door romance and tame language, then Dana Archer's versions are for you.

Otherwise, download to read an intense story that will pull you into the thrilling, sensual, and emotionally satisfying saga of the Shifter World^®.