Mackenzie is in a bit of a bind when she tells her grandmother, whose very insistent on her settling down, that she has a boyfriend. She manages to rope in hot but aloof doctor Noah Taylor to pose as her fake beau to appease her grandma but in turn must help Noah by pretending to be his mate to the hospital board and staff when his job is on the line. As the two become closer and begin to explore their bond, emotions start shifting.

This was fun and a bit sexy and I did like my time reading it. I liked Mackenzie and Noah - there was a bit of grumpy/sunshine pairing going on which I do enjoy, and I did find Noah very cute especially when we had his POV and we could see how anxious and how much second guessing he had going on which for a big, strong guy was a nice vulnerability to see.

The werewolf part in this for me was slightly disappointing as I would have liked to have seen more actual werewolf bits rather than it all be focused on the sexual nature of things. I would have liked to have known more about their shifting, growing up as a werewolf, how it worked more rather than just knowing about alpha/omega bond and knotting which is honestly quite gross.

While I liked this, I don't think there was much new in this one for me and I did feel like apart from the werewolf element and a few tweaks, the book was extremely similar to The Love Hypothesis from the scientific/medical setting, the type of characters, the friendship groups and even the 'villain' of the story. Also I've never known a book to overuse the word 'slick' so much.