Joam is a varnal, a shape-shifter endowed with otherworldly sexual powers, but his talents go untapped because he fears the beast within himself—not to mention he can't let anyone know he's gay. Working a dirty job for slave wages, Joam is unaware that his boss at the auto shop, Higgs, has his own reasons for keeping him a virgin—he's made a deal with Gregor Walsh, a powerful varnal from the big city who needs a special sacrifice for an arcane ritual. Blake's a hustler on the run for his life. When his car breaks down outside of Beulah, he finds more than just a mechanic in Joam. Blake has done it all, but when it comes to making love with a varnal, he's a total virgin. It doesn't stop him, or Joam, from enjoying the experience to the fullest. But when Higgs and Walsh discover that their pristine sacrifice has been deflowered, there's hell to pay. [Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, bondage, masturbation, male/male sexual practices, mild violence, sex while in shifted animal form.]

Genre: LGBT Shape-shifter Paranormal Series: Awakenings; Previous Book: Virgin Joam is a varnal, a shape-shifter endowed with otherworldly sexual powers. Until recently a virgin, all Joam wants to do is drive his new lover Blake, a former hustler, wild. But the hotter things get between them, the more out of control Joam's varnal powers become. The next thing he knows, he's shifting without warning and drawing dangerous quantities of sexual energy from Blake, leaving his soulmate in a blissful, comatose state for days. Terrified that he will kill Blake, Joam withdraws, but Blake misunderstands the reason for this sudden distance, and fears that Joam is rejecting him for his past. Meanwhile, all is not as it seems at the quiet farmhouse retreat where the two have found refuge after a traumatic experience in Joam's hometown. If Joam and Blake don't break out of their intoxicating cycle of denial and excess in time, it may be too late for both of them. Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, exhibitionism, same-sex practices (f/f, m/m), ménage, sex while in shifted animal form, violence (rape of hero by villain), voyeurism.