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Kissing the Shark
2025
First Published
3.95
Average Rating
243
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What would you do if a hunky shark shifter dude walked out of the ocean and claimed you as his mate? I love my job at the Maritime Monsters Institute. I get to help ocean life as well as humans who shift into marine-based creatures. There’s so much to learn about the monster community, and I’d like to think my knowledge has helped all sea creatures. Dating life? Who’s that, never heard of her. But then a tall shifter strides in from the ocean and gets down on one knee in front of me. Everyone at my job witnesses him declaring his undying love for me. It’s nonsense because he doesn’t know me. In fact, he’s new to the surface world! I tell him to stop, but cutting this shark out of my life is more difficult than it seems. My job finds me teaching him all about life on land. It doesn’t help that I find him drop-dead handsome. This monster is naïve and overbearing. But after weeks of working together, we become friends. The shark becomes…endearing. Charming. Sweet. I never thought I could be in a human-monster relationship. But this shark threatens to drown me with his love in the best possible way. I want to give this shifter a shot, but if I do, will our hearts sink or swim? “Kissing the Shark” is an adult male-male spicy paranormal romance novel set in the Creepin U monster universe. This romcom stars an affectionate shark shifter who’s lived in the ocean his whole life, and the researcher he falls head over fin for. With all the Maritime Monsters novels, a spicy good time and a HEA are guaranteed.

Avg Rating
3.95
Number of Ratings
176
5 STARS
38%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
22%
2 STARS
6%
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Author

C.D. Rachels
C.D. Rachels
Author · 15 books

CD Rachels has been coming up with stories since he was little. At first it was all about superheroes and pocket monsters, but his genre of choice has expanded since puberty. He’s been consuming young adult gay fiction since he was a teen, but within the past five years moved up to the big leagues of gay adult romance. In 2020 during quarantine, he burned through more male/male romance books than he ever had in the previous 29 years combined. He lives in New York City with the love of his life and works in health insurance. When he’s not reading and writing, he’s playing board games and practicing music. He is honored to become a self-published author, and if you’re reading this, your support means so much to him that it’s giving him a tingly feeling (in a good way).

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