Breaking the Ice — A.J. Marcus

Ben Miner is happy with his life as a business major at Colorado University Boulder. For the first time in his life, he's getting things planned out. He's about to graduate and ready for anything life can throw at him, as long as he doesn't have to go home to Hardwood Valley. He's tired of the shifter community there and wants to stay among the humans.

Felix Chantal is doing his best to support himself and his sister as they struggle to get their degrees. When hunters ambush them at his sister's work, the two fight back, then find themselves on the run.

When Ben and Felix run into each other, their lives change forever. They have an instant attraction, but with hunters on their tails, do the badger and bat have time to explore the feelings welling up within them before a hunter's bullet ends everything?