"Bride" by Ali Hazelwood

Come join us for an awesome new spicy read! This month we'll be reading Bride by Ali Hazelwood. This book is a huge departure from Hazelwood's typical STEM-focused rom-coms and instead is a paranormal love story featuring a forced marriage between a vampire woman and a wolf-shifter man. And ooh boy, is it spicy!! A limited number of hard copies will be available at the Garrettsville Branch of the PCDL library. Just ask for one at the circulation desk. It will also be available on the Libby app. After we talk about this title, let's swap any new romance favorites and hopefully we'll each leave the meeting with a longer TBR list!

Short book blurb:
Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again...

Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was….

Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf.