Zodiac Shifters Paranormal Romance, #7: Phoenix Under Fire: Aries There is a battle brewing and the witches are looking for allies. Annie's father plans to force her to mate a male of his choice. She wants her fated one and casts a spell to find him. Problem solved, right? Ramiros wakes up with sand up his nose. What happened to his nice comfortable bed? When he finds the person who dumped him on the beach thousands of miles from home, there will be hell to pay. He almost felt sorry for the fool who'd chosen to mess with a Phoenix.

Sophie needed to find her fated mate to avoid being forced to mate someone of her Uncle’s choosing. Her cousin spells for her fated one, but an angry dragon shows up. This wasn’t at all what she expected. Knossos wakes up and he’s not in his lair anymore. Someone has dared to summon him out of his slumber. The guilty party turns out to be his fated mate, so he can’t burn her to a crisp. He wasn’t really ready for this, so what’s a dragon to do?

Two Capricorns, the male a Pegasus and the female a witch, are fated mates. Herk, the male, finds he doesn’t want to mate with the danger hanging over everyone in his world. Pru, the female witch, feels Herk made promises and now he’s disappeared. It makes her feel he lied to get what he wanted. As they both deal with the conflict headed their way, they also have to deal with their feelings for each other. Fate intended them to be together forever, but Herk is too busy running away.

Julio didn’t know much about love, but his mate was challenging everything he wanted in life. That couldn’t be right, could it? Maybe he was wrong about her being his mate, but he felt bad now that he’d gone back to the plains leaving her behind. No matter what he did it seemed to be wrong. Janel had thought she’d found her one and only, but he’d left without a backwards look. She tried to date, but he was the only one on her mind. For now she would pour everything into her job and eventually things would settle. Two stubborn Pisces who each think they are right. Will they give in or face a life alone?

Darby Darknight was at a loss. Gertie was his fated mate, but so far all she’d done was make him the laughing stock of people he didn’t even know. His fault, he supposed, since he’d arrived after she had. Now he needed to get back her regard and claim her as a mate while they chased a vampire set on vengeance against his whole race. Easy, right? Gertie Worthington wanted to be anywhere but here. Oh, it had been amusing at first. Darby had ended up on the wrong side of everything. Now it was so bad she felt sorry for him. That wasn’t good and he might use that to his advantage. All she wanted to do was go home.

Jespers didn’t know what to think of Daphne the lovely witch. If she wasn’t crazy about unicorns to the point of being obsessed, he’d mate her. Daphne was half in love with Jespers, but he wasn’t a unicorn. She’d always known her true mate would be one so what was a witch to do? Maybe the mate summoning spell since it had worked for her cousin. Will things work out for two lovers so unsure of each other? Can they just learn to trust their hearts or will they have to learn the hard way?

Cam is upset that he’s been sent to the HQ in South America to take over operations. He’s been partnered up with Diamond, Ram’s sister. She’s beautiful, smart, and tough, but clearly not his mate or is she? How will he keep his hands off her when she clearly doesn’t want him? Diamond can’t believe her parents are sending her to work with Cam. He’s her mate, but she’s not ready yet. Sure, he’s sexy, smart, and strong, but she wants to be all she can be in the business before she’s kept barefoot and pregnant. Everyone knows the views he had on women when he was younger. She’s just as sure those views haven’t changed. Compromise between these two independent people? Is that even possible?