\This book was part of the Gathering Darkness boxed set. If you already own the boxed set, please do not purchase this book.\ Gorilla shifter Zane Keeton has spent the last twenty-seven years of his life at Amazing Adventures Safari Park, where shifters live in secret away from humans. The enjoyment he gets from tuning up safari vehicles and hanging out in his shifted form for the park visitors has slowly ebbed, and now his thoughts are consumed with finding a mate of his own. When human Adriana and her best friend, Celeste, receive free tickets for a VIP tour of the safari, they decide that it’s just the sort of exciting adventure that they’ve been waiting for. But when their vehicles are separated, Adriana finds herself on the receiving end of unwanted attention from a creepy tour guide. As the tour guide suddenly attacks her in front of the gorilla paddock, she’s rescued by an unlikely hero – one of the gorillas. Adriana quickly discovers that her rescuer is no ordinary gorilla. Not only are shifters real, but the gorilla who saved her life claims that she’s his soulmate. Is she willing to let go of everything she knows and embrace being Zane’s mate?

Second-in-command lion shifter Jupiter Ross has a lot on his plate. As the head of security for Amazing Adventures Safari Park, he has to ensure the safety of not only the humans who come through the gates every day, but the natural animals, and most importantly, the shifters who live and work in secret at the park. The alphas have recently determined that bringing in unmated humans for VIP park tours would allow some of the males and females to find their soulmates, and that increased Jupiter’s duties tenfold. As an unmated male, he’d like to find his soulmate and settle down, but he’s not sure that random human females coming in for free tours is the way to go. When Celeste Patterson receives an invitation for a free tour of the safari park, she and her best friend, Adriana, can’t wait to go. Even though they’re separated and unable to take the tour together, Celeste can’t help but think that a wonderful adventure is just around the corner. Jupiter is amazed to discover that his soulmate is in fact one of the recipients of a VIP tour invitation. The feisty female is everything he could have ever wanted in a mate, from her gorgeous curves to her mile-wide attitude. Get your ticket and get in line for the Amazing Adventure Safari Park VIP Tour. You just might be lucky enough to find your happily ever after.

Gorilla shifter Win Carlson would love to find his soulmate, the one female on earth perfect for him. Thanks to the VIP Tour tickets that the Amazing Adventures Safari Park has sent out to eligible females in the area, he’s seeing a lot of females, but he’s getting discouraged that none of them are his soulmate. Nothing would make Alexandra Flynn happier than having her own bakery, except maybe finding a man to spend the rest of her life with. When her car breaks down one night, Win comes riding to the rescue, and she’s immediately smitten with the big, sexy guy. But Win isn’t just any guy, he’s a shifter, and humans don’t know that shifters exist. What happens when Win accidentally shifts into his gorilla form in front of Lexy?

When Trina arrives at the Amazing Adventures Safari Park to apply for a job at her cousin’s sweets shop, she doesn’t expect to meet the man of her dreams at the front gate, or that his kisses would drive her senseless. Bear shifter Justus would love to meet his soulmate. The weekly park VIP tours so far have netted him zero meetings with the one female meant to be his. When he volunteers to escort a human to the park’s new sweets shop, he doesn’t expect to fall head over heels for the feisty brunette. It’s no simple thing to find a soulmate who’s human. Shifters aren’t known to them, and one careless whisper of their nature out in the human world could spell disaster for the entire shifter race. Justus doesn’t want to keep anything from his soulmate, but he’s not sure how to tell her the truth without losing her. When she comes face to face with his bear, will she stay or will she run?

Lion shifter Jenni is beginning to think that the VIP tours hosted by the Amazing Adventures Safari Park aren’t going to help her find her soulmate. When she’s offered a job in the new sweets shop at the park, she decides taking a break from the tours isn’t a bad idea. Devlin is poised to get a promotion at work that will change his life dramatically. But when he sees a beautiful blonde woman at his cousin’s sweets shop, everything he ever thought he wanted disappears in a flash. Now, he only wants Jenni. Nothing is hotter to Devlin than being with Jenni, but he can tell she’s holding something back. When he comes to the zoo to see her, but finds himself at the lion paddock, staring into a lioness’s eyes that are the same pretty amber as Jenni’s, he knows exactly what her secret is, even though it seems impossible. Devlin has a choice to give up everything to live with Jenni at the park, or walk away forever. She can’t live in his world, but can he live in hers?

In the tradition of their people, owl shifter Jessica Thompson’s parents have chosen a mate for her. On the way to a celebratory hunt to meet her arranged mate, a group of hunters spies them and she’s separated from her nest among the flurry of bullets. Injured and disoriented, she crash-lands in a park. Wolf shifter Auden James has lived at the Amazing Adventures Safari Park his whole life, and he loves working on the VIP tours they’re hopeful will bring soulmates to the shifters who live in secret underground. When he takes a shift as a security guard, he watches something crash in the lion paddock and rushes to the scene, where he finds an injured owl. As the owl slowly changes into a beautiful female, Auden knows he’s in the presence of his soulmate. But Jess’s nest isn’t about to let her go without a fight. When a betrayal puts everyone in danger, will Jess and Auden survive?

Bear shifter Tayme has called the Amazing Adventures Safari Park home his whole life. The fact that shifters own and run the park is a well-guarded secret from humans, who don’t know about their existence, but it makes for some pretty lonely shifters. Tayme’s hoping to find his soulmate someday, but he doesn’t know where to look. Red fox shifter Rory is an oddity, an orphan living with the owl shifters who killed her family. When her best friend Jessica is injured during a flight and winds up in the arms of her soulmate, Rory is the only one in the entire nest who supports her. On a trip to visit her bestie, she’s carted off into the woods by a huge male, and she knows she’s found her soulmate. While Tayme’s sleuth welcomes her with open arms, the owl nest is anything but welcoming. A meet up with her adoptive parents ends in bloodshed, and Rory feels like she’s once again an orphan. Until strangers come knocking on the park’s front gate one dark night and offer her a chance to be with her own kind again. When faced with the decision, will she remain in the park or leave?

All Jeanie Moon has to show for the last twenty-five years of her life is a divorce that left her broke with terrible credit, and a desire to never be in a relationship again. When her twenty-something neighbor gives her a coupon for a free VIP tour at a safari park, she decides there are worse ways to spend a Friday afternoon. Alpha wolf Joss isn’t interested in anything but the Amazing Adventures Safari Park he and his pack call home – that and keeping their shifter abilities a secret from humans. He’s happy when one of his males finds a soulmate, but none of his people have found their mate with the help of the VIP tours which were designed to bring in potential mates. When he’s called to the tour desk to settle an issue with someone using another person’s ticket, he’s in for the shock of his life when he discovers his soulmate is the one holding the ticket. Joss knows that taking a human as his mate means his alphaship is in jeopardy, but he won’t give Jeanie up without a fight, even if it means facing off against the one male he never thought he’d see again...his brother.

Gorilla shifter Neo feels like he’s been waiting for his soulmate forever, even though he’s only twenty-six. He keeps himself busy during the day as a mechanic at Amazing Adventures Safari Park, where he and his fellow shifters live in secrecy from humans. But the lonely nights are getting to him, and he wonders when he’ll meet the other half of his heart. Danielle Fitzgerald knows her stepfather, Dexter, and his son, Khyle, are keeping something from her and her mother, but she can’t figure out what it is. There’s something off about both of them – and the group of men that work for their construction company. Against her dad’s wishes, she takes a VIP ticket for the safari tour and finds herself entranced with one of the gorillas. Neo knows the moment the vehicle with his soulmate stops in front of the gorilla paddock, and his beast can’t wait to meet her. He knows it will take a while before he can share the truth of his shift with her, but what he doesn’t count on is her stepfamily’s secret. When the truth comes out, will Dani be able to stay with Neo at the park, or will her family steal her away before he can stop them?

November Jones is the product of a one-night stand. She didn’t know her father except to curse his name and the weird genetics he left her with. She wouldn’t give him a single thought if it weren’t for the fact that he tried to kill her several times and she and her mother have been on the run since she was a toddler. When an invitation for a safari tour shows up in the mail addressed to the previous occupant, Novi feels compelled to go. Elephant shifter Cael spends his days as the in-house veterinarian at the Amazing Adventures Safari Park taking care of the normal animals and his nights underground with the other shifters, staying hidden from humans. It’s a day like any other when he’s in his shift in the paddock while the safari tour vehicles drive by…until he smells something amazing and knows the beautiful brunette VIP is his soulmate. The problem? Novi is no ordinary human. Can Cael and the shifters in the park keep Novi and her mom safe in the park or will Novi’s father finally catch up to them?

Evan James thought he’d found the woman of his dreams in a wolf shifter pack in Virginia, but when the alpha is killed in a coup, the new alpha decides to hold his niece—Evan’s potential mate—hostage. In order to free Aletris, Evan will have to betray his home pack and all of the Amazing Adventures Safari Park shifters. What will happen to Aletris if Evan can’t go through with the alpha’s plan to take over the park? When Lark Phillips takes her niece to the safari park for a fun afternoon, she tries to get them on a VIP tour even though they don’t have tickets. One of the most handsome guys she’s ever met offers to take her and her pint-sized niece for a personal tour, and Lark’s pretty sure she’s died and gone to heaven. Evan is amazing, and she hates that she has to leave to take her niece home. She can’t wait to spend time with the sexy guy and get to know more about him. In desperation, Evan goes to his alpha for help, and together they come up with a way to get Aletris out of harm’s way and protect the park. Evan only wants to be with Lark, but he can’t abandon Aletris, who’s waiting to be rescued. One way or another, Evan will make good on his promise to free the female wolf, but he’s not willing to give up his soulmate in the process. Can he save Aletris and keep Lark safe, or will he lose everything?