Summer Tempest: A reverse harem wolf-shifter omegaverse

by Birdie D'Avo

This action-packed second installment of the Cursed Omega duet is now complete!

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Silent Peak gave Mona everything she’d ever wanted—mates, her pack, a home. But on the brink of her first heat, her perfect world crumbles when witches violently tear her from her home. Now she has no choice but to trust two dangerous the shifter who nearly killed her and awakened her wolf Beep, and a mysterious witch who denies their connection, no matter how much his touch ignites her.

As the witches’ delta-kidnapping-spree continues, Mona’s powers intensify. Each night, her dreams become a portal of visions, forcing her to witness the High Priestess torturing her captives.

Mona will do anything to save them—even sacrifice the happiness she spent her whole life searching for.



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This is an MFMMM (no MM) reverse harem wolf shifter romance with omegaverse elements. It is part of a duet (this book concludes the duet and ends in an HEA), multiple POV, multiple partners/extremely graphic sex scenes intended for readers 18+, no cheating, no choosing. Please read content on-page murder/death, sexual including off-page memories of an MMC. This is not an exhaustive list, please read with care.

Genres: Omegaverse, Shapeshifters, Paranormal

423 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 15, 2026

About the author

Birdie's life experiences inform her primarily character-driven stories. With the hopes of providing rich, complex, authentic relationships, most of her work includes strong female characters and "high-spice/open-door" scenes while dancing on the edge of darker-themed romance. Birdie writes the stories she wants to read. Find more at www.birdiedavo.com

Reviews

[Lucy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have not stopped thinking about Winter Ferine since I read it a month ago. It has popped into my brain at least once a day since I closed the digital cover. So now having an end to the story arch, I can safely say, while I enjoyed this duet immensely, this is not one of my favorite het-omegaverse duets/series I've read. It's far from perfect, but I never read omegaverse expecting literary masterpiece. I'm here for a good time and sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised.

Let me tell you the things that didn't work for me. In this installment, our focus as far as MMCs shifts from Grayson and Orion and we're given more time building relationships with Silas and Ghost. Unfortunately, there just doesn't seem to be quite enough to build a solid relationship with Ghost specifically since he is so against forming a bond (due to his own issues), he's pretty absent through a lot of this. Silas? I loved. I really liked him and I loved the relationship we got between him and Mona. The relationships Mona had with Grayson and Orion were pretty much set, there wasn't any more courting, so to speak, needed so no more effort was really put into getting that on page (beyond copious sex scenes, some of which were really hard to figure out the logistics for.) Also, everyone is riddled with self-loathing and self-recriminations. My goodness, the pack needs a dedicated therapist so we can get some clarity and forgiveness going.

There were continuity errors, particularly with the sex scenes that really made them not great. I'm not one that reads a book specifically for smut, so I just found myself skimming those scenes for plot critical moments and letting the rest go. They weren't horrifically cringe so at least that was a bonus for that area. We also had several issues that, for the sake of moving the plot along, felt illogical. Like four of the major alpha players (Silas, Grayson, Orion, and Kendrick) having a conversation with major secrets out in the open in an area rife with shifters with superhuman hearing.

This is just one of those books that you have to take as it is and realize that the second installment is not as good as the first. Summer Tempest was good (for me) because I love Silas and we had a suspense plot that worked well. But it didn't measure up quite as well as Winter Ferine and for that I am disappointed. It's a low 4 star, and frankly, if I did half stars, it would be a 3.5.

[Holly's Bookshelf · Rating 2 out of 5]

Miscommunication trope all over the place. I got bored.

[C · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25⭐️

[Jelly May · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helped me out of my reading slump

Wow. I love this duet. I really love this duet. The found family, the spice doesn’t take up the whole story, and love the characters. The plot is really great. This was such a great read. Thank you for giving us more of Ghost’s story.

[Kay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall this book series was okay but I felt like the plot line was very easy to predict. I feel a lot of books have the same story of the main character and villain make a deal that the main character sacrifices themselves for others, but oh no, the villain doesn’t follow through on their end of the bargain.

I also wish Mona and Ghost’s first sexual interaction wasn’t them in the dungeon with the witches when they both knew that’s what they wanted the whole time? Felt very weird to read and was actually looking forward to when they got together.

I also wish all of Mona’s training lead up to some battle scenes where she was successful in defending herself. Both in this book and the first one they talked about her needed to get in tune with her wolf and learning to defend herself, but in the end the guys came to save the day and everything she worked towards was for nothing?

Was an okay read but I think this story will unfortunately not be very memorable in my mind within a few months.

[Trina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book 2 (of 2). Somewhat of a come-down from Book 1, this is 3.5 stars, rounded down. I re-read Book 1 prior to going in and am still happy with my 5 star rating of that. It's a cracker. Book 2, however, didn't tick as many boxes. It was quite a bit longer yet less seemed to happen. The pace was off and it dragged in places. I started looking forward to my next book, instead of loving the one I had in front of me. I didn't even bother reading the bonus scene because it focused on side-characters I felt nothing for.

[Tedra · Rating 3 out of 5]

WTH.
I can't even with this book.
Let me just say that I consider book 1, Winter Ferine my top favorite RH book this year, I mean it. LOVED nearly everything about the book (was not thrilled that Mona apologized to Andrea & telling her that she should not have been punished for beating her half to death!!). I legit recommend this book nearly everyday on various RH fb pages so when I say that I was frothing for this book, believe me .

I went in knowing it wasn't going to be like bk1 & I was ok with this. I was worried about there not being enough time to flesh out a relationship with 2 new alphas (Ghost & Silas), integrate them into the harem in an organic way, including relationship build with the Fmc & her Father AND fight off what was once a very good villainous female witch & coven…and sadly, I was right.

I 100%believe that any harem with 4 mmcs should always be at least 2 books for time to develop, 3 books if it's a complicated relationship or a deep plotline etc this really should've been either 3 books OR book 1 should've been a 100 pages longer..

I can't believe this is the same author who to me, wrote a 5 star read (book 1). The amount of times I shook my head and was like wtf are you kidding me right now? while reading this was just sad. Still I gave it 3 stars because the author CAN write, and there were a lot of things I DID like.

The amount of self blaming, “it's my fault”, self disgust, self hate PITTY PARTIES in this book is OTT. Everyone goes thru it & utters those words or variations of it through out. I got so sick of everyone blaming themselves for things beyond their control or blaming someone else..
…Mona blaming Kendrick for the missing shifters- he was the 1 from the beginning that knew it was witches, he just couldn't prove it!
Andrea blaming & going apeshit at Mona for not telling her about her dream of strawberry girl. Even if Mona had told Andrea about the dream- neither still wouldn't have known they were mates. Pointless.
Kendrick blaming himself for not “looking for Mona” years earlier. Dude, he saw the charred, dead remains of his wide & a toddler, burnt beyond recognition, why would he ever had thought to doubt it wasnt really his kid??? Did the author forget details of bk 1?……………….
“You told me about the dreams with Lily and Silas, you could have told me about this woman. I could have been more prepared. We could have tried to find her. Are you still so angry with me you would deny me”.......
Why would she? This is the same chick who didn't bother telling Mona who her Dad was!
Ghost blames himself about his dad's death- he was a child & he blames himself for again, something out of his control, but its why he rejects Mona .
Mona blames herself for jumping on Silas during her heat. Then Silas is all rejecting because he blames himself for being a manwhore & what Deidre had him doing for 5 years.
Ghost self disgust for fuqing Mona during her heat- immediately hates himself,
Orion blames himself for Mona putting herself in a dangerous situation with the witches.
Mona once again blaming herself for “failing” Lily in bk1 ..huh??
Grayson blaming himself for not killing Stance when he had the chance, resulting in Mona being taken.
Both Grayson & Orion feeling guilt over not taking Mona- the weakest of the entire pack - with them in bk 1 to fight an entire coven of witches? Why why why
Silas constantly thinking he wasn't good enough for Mona.

It was constant between everyone pointless filler & a waste of time. I kept reading things like New Moon runs that were brought up twice like it was gonna matter- it does not & just made me think why are we wasting pages for this? It wasn't needed & we were getting NOTHING about the witches, certainly nothing between Ghost & Mona.


Everyone just got dumb & childish. Mona especially. Gone was the Grayson & Orion I adored in book 1. Mona losing her shit at certain characters was cringe.
The Whole tantrum Mona thru about Andrea being in jail was cringe.
At 58% Mona overhears that Kendrick is her Dad.
Why are the 4 top tier Alphas(Gray, Orion,Silas & Kendrick) saying. something so private right out in the open where any shifter can hear? Cause. that is EXACTLY what happens.
Mona losing it....
“He asked me not to say anything.” “I thought we were friends,” I grit. “We are friends, Mona. But when Kendrick gives you an order, you obey.” “Fuck Kendrick!” I snap...........excuse me, but Girl, you haven't even bothered to tell Orion, Grayson or Andrea that Ghost was your mate, Silas FINALLY the guys at the 56% mark.

No one communicated, like at all. Nobody told Mona the reason why creepy Kendrick kept looking at her was because he's her Dad. No one told Grayson & Orion the reason creepy Ghost kept starring at & hanging around Mona was because he's the 4th mate.
Ghost has like 3 brief conversations with Mona in the entire book. The longest doesnt happen until like 80%
they finally fuq at like %82.
We don't even learn his real name til 83% rushed af

Little details like this.....
During that time, Deidre was still peddling cheap prosperity spells to humans. It was the Great Depression era and, frankly, Deidre was barely scraping by"...
Did author forget in bk1, talked about Deidre selling luck potions for $20 a pop during the Great Depression? A lifeline back then……….

Orion walking out of their cabin to greet Mona. This was written so oddly because he was with Grayson when they picked her & Silas up. He was there all the way to the jail to let Andrea out, went home to wait? It was maybe a couple of hours? But it almost reads like they haven't seen each other yet?

“Firefly, you’re home,” he says with so much conviction it makes my heart squeeze. “I’m home,” I agree. “Finally.” He leaps off the porch and rushes closer, pulling me into a hug, lifting me right off the ground. My legs swing and I giggle into his chest. “You smell so good.” “I need a shower,” I counter. “Badly.” ……he knows this? He sat in the backseat with you ride back home?? Very confusing……

More continuity problems
She's naked in 1 scene, the next page they're pulling her shirt off…

“With some maneuvering, we get Mona naked”.....

“Orion pulls off her shirt and the moment her beautiful tits are free, my mouth descends”

Several times it was difficult to tell who was speaking at times as well
Little things but honestly I did not have these problems with book 1 at all. Even a
Couple grammar mistakes this time too which made me wonder if author rushed. The quality definitely went down & that makes me sad.

Too much Andrea, Doc was barely in the book like at all.
Again, we didnt need a fleshed out bff storyline with Andrea & Mona. I wanted a fleshed out relationship build with Ghost & Silas. All I read was filler and missed opportunities.
Because that 5some at the end with Ghost was cringe to me. He barely knew anyone & all of a sudden its a DVP & more. It felt awkward and gratuitous.

Deidre told Silas this in the beginning & she repeats it several times through out.
…“You do what you do best, Silas—you fuck that girl and impregnate her. I’ll even let you keep the kid. I only want her blood.”....

Why was she all about getting Mona pregnant but at the end it was exact opposite? Why salivate over needing her blood when all she really wanted was her womb? When the blood was drawn every witch wanted it, it's assumed for magic & yet in the end what they really wanted was her womb.

At 1 point it was said the mmc sperm inside the fmc would make her magical blood more potent. It was assumed Deidre wanted her blood to control her but once they escape- they already had a vial of her blood (from fmc's previous dr) Why not use that way before to compel Mona ?

When did Deidre get so stupid? She made massive mistakes left & right.
Why would she leave Ghost- a powerful witch, alone with Mona & her magical blood?! He of course used it to cast spells & wards.
Why wasn't he shackled or his magic contained? Seriously?

The fertility thing was never explained fully- Mona called Deidre barren. Did that mean no eggs at all? She couldn't use a surrogate?
Again none of this made sense fully.
Was it just Deidre's coven that became barren? Or just Deidre??

Mona tstl makes a deal with Deidre & of course is betrayed. MAKES another deal to get all hostages released in exchange she'll get all of her mates (Gray, Orion & silas) there as prisoners to the witch.
Are you for real.
Of course Andrea decided nope, shes staying. So then of course Strawberry girl & her alpha stay. What the freaking point.?! Andrea legit put her omega in harms way.
And of course, Mona is blaming herself- again- that she got Ghost locked up too. Girl, you just made a deal to bait your 3 other mates in exchange to release the others. Yeah, you're dumb.

Hated the heat plotline used as the last resort to get first Silas & Mona to hook up the first time (he had been rejecting her). And it's used again with Mona & Ghost. Seriously. Laziness.

Are you kidding me right now with the IUD. This was unnecessary waste of space. I can't believe all those pages over an IUD & it's removal. Pointless….

Not much development on the witches - she was a good villainous in bk 1.
No explanation on why or how Kendrick has earth powers enough to cause earthquakes? Like how?
Mona always cried about not being loved by her fake dad & all that and she just is constantly rude to her own real father (once she found out who he was).
Its like everything from bk1 was flipped. There was barely any attempt to connect from her end.

Also..high spice? Really? They were extremely short not very descriptive scenes. With exception to Silas & Mona's heat/rut sex being the hotest i guess.
The 5some at end felt awkward ..
Ya'll, I'm heartbroken.

[°˖✧˚lindsay˚✧˖° · Rating 2 out of 5]

Long winded. Boring. Anticlimactic.
Lost all the sparkle that made the first book worth it.

You can just tell that the author was ticking boxes, rather than pouring passion into it.

The ending is cringy.
Men don’t talk like that, and if they did, it would be in a dead bedroom.

The reliance on Silas to suddenly be ‘funny’ to break the tension, when he’s been lovably mean this whole time? We’re 90% in. Let’s not make a whole new character, who happens to share his name.

And the requisite group bit sounded awful.
I read a ton of reverse harem and was surprised to find an omegaverse I hadn’t read yet, but I actually winced at this.

This author seems preoccupied with trying to be different, and while it worked in some regard, it rarely ever works when dealing with sensitive bits.

She even had the wherewithal to realize the FMC wouldn’t get off that way, but the lack of appeal still didn’t seem to click.
Whatever.

The epilogue was as I expected.
By now, you’ve probably gathered that isn’t a compliment.

It’s fine. Whatever.
Good for what it is but could stand to be substantially less.

I might be interested in a series based on the next generation, but only if the author is as passionate about it as she originally was about this story.

[Christina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stopped at 42%.

I honestly stopped caring about these characters. I only started reading this one to see what happened, and what I got happened way too easily to me.

I do not like the fact that Silas kinda got forced into bonding Mona after everything he had been through. He was abused for years but of course, as soon as Mona goes in heat he bonds her. I liked that initially he refused helping with her heat because, HE WAS ABUSED, but quickly gave in. He didn’t even want a mate believing he didn’t deserve one. I’m just so tired of tropes that introduce trauma after years of abuse, only for the person to get over it after five minutes.

And then there is Ghost…

Why are we suddenly dropping in a new mate?

And then this quote that made me want to gag.

“You’ve got enough slick to lube the entire clan. What should I do with it?”

Gross.

[Lisa Baffi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Five stars!!

This was an author I had not read yet. I really liked the
story, especially all the POV. The idea of witches being able to alter a shifter was new and interesting. I loved seeing all the mates finding love through each other. The sex scenes were good and spicy, and the ending was great. I would definitely read more from this author in the future.

[Zurika · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worthwhile the read

This was a very well written duet. For the the balance between spice and plot was just right! There is enough angst but not over the top to be any kind of trigger for me personally.
The dinamics between the characters are well written and very interesting.

[Bekah]

DNF’ing at 85% is pretty much unheard of for me. Really shows how over the story I was and the author changed direction at the end which I hated.

[Sharese · Rating 4 out of 5]

got me out a reading slump

Perfect duet that got me out of a reading slump. Have been dnf all the books in my library but finished these in two days.

[Melissa Cahill · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.85

[Belen Larrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sure as hell didn’t know it could fit that much.

[Mahi Mehr · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got bored.