What It’s About: This volume collects all of Ruby Dixon’s bear shifter novellas into one book. They showcase a small town where bear shifters find their mates, who are often human, and bring them into the fold of the paranormal, despite some upfront difficulties.

Spice Level: The sex in all of these stories is intensely satisfying once the pairings get around to it. It doesn’t usually take long, since they’re all novellas. And shifters never run out of stamina, so take that into consideration.

Realism: I thought this was a cute way to deal with some of the issues shifters might face if their mates were human, and I liked the idea of a town that was mostly shifters, which provides them some security.

Trope Alert: Age gap, Daddy kink (if you squint, but just in case you don’t like it, I want to mention it), enemies to lovers, fated mates, friends with benefits. I might have missed a few since there were five novellas in this collection, but these are the ones I remember most vividly.