Six months after a dimensional breach tore civilization apart, former combat medic Ryder Callahan survives alone at an abandoned veterinary clinic on the edge of a ruined city. Feral creatures prowl the wasteland. Scavenger gangs strip the ruins bare. Humanity is all but gone.
Then something else came through the breach. Monster girls; dangerous, beautiful women with animal and supernatural features, each one in desperate need of the one thing Ryder can provide.
Healing.
A fierce catgirl warrior with predator eyes and retractable claws that don’t sheathe around strangers. A golden-haired bunnygirl forager with a need building inside her she can’t suppress. A centuries-old kitsune trickster who shows up on his roof uninvited, trailing fox-fire and trouble.
Three monster girls. One medic. A crumbling clinic becoming something worth fighting for.
As the compound grows from bare-bones triage station into a fortified home, each girl brings what the others can’ a warrior’s blade, a nurturer’s instinct, a trickster’s illusions. And each one bonds with Ryder in ways that test every boundary he thought he had.
But the wasteland is watching. A scavenger gang has been circling the perimeter, and their leader sees Ryder’s clinic, his supplies, and his girls as resources to be taken.
The first siege is coming.
No fade-to-black. No weak heroes. Just survival, monster girls, and a medic who earns everything he gets.
This book was pretty good, but it veered off into more erotica than haremlit.
The MC is a former medic that lives alone at a since abandoned veterinary clinic. The world has had a rift open nearby, and mutated creatures and beast people have appeared. It's been months of living alone, but that ends with the arrival of a wounded feline beastkin. He treats her, and lets her be while waiting for her to heal, and a bond starts to form between them. After about 5 days, she jumps him for sex, and it isn't a romantic moment, but more a nearly feral need on her part. Soon after, while scavenging, they rescue a bunny woman that's terrified. She agrees to go back to the clinic, and now they are 3. Then a kitsune woman shows up, and it's 4. Each new addition doesn't go a week before having sex with the MC. There are plenty of somewhat decent sex scenes in this book.
What makes it interesting is that while the relationships start as more need than anything close to romance, you do get the sense of the women coming to appreciate the MC before having sex with him. And while it's shown in fairly bare bones fashion, you do get a feel for it. Eventually, emotions do get more involved, though it's more a sense of having found a home and belonging than expressing feelings of love.
Good read. Told well. Like the characters and their development. MC likable. Could use a little more expansion. Old tale told differently & well thought out. Plot interesting even with an old theme.