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Bad Little Falls #6
Convergent Evolution
The town therapist has been listening to everyone else's problems for twelve years. The town is about to return the favor.
Dr. Michael Taylor is a platypus omega who keeps his house at nesting temperature, his schedule airtight, and his clinical voice running commentary on everything including his own loneliness. He's the only platypus in Bad Little Falls. He's been the only platypus in Bad Little Falls since 2012. He's fine.
Angus Burrows is an Australian wombat alpha on a temporary DEP rotation, sampling rivers and writing reports nobody reads. He's got a motel room with someone else's furniture, a coffee machine from the Clinton administration, and no plans past November.
Michael wasn't supposed to want anything this much. Angus wasn't supposed to stay.
Then blackflies drove a wombat out of his clothes on a riverbank, a platypus surfaced six feet away, and two burrowing animals recognized each other across the mud.
Now there's an omegaverse bond that hit like a current, a heat that isn't waiting for the clinical voice to finish its analysis, a town that assembled in the diner to say nothing and mean everything, and a deputy who has introduced a new color of tab to his clipboard.
Two unrelated species. Same bank. Same direction.
Convergent Evolution is a cozy, high-heat M/M omegaverse shifter romance with fated mates, knotting, small-town meddling, venomous ankles, cube-shaped droppings, and a guaranteed HEA. Sixth in the Bad Little Falls series. Includes a bonus short story.
Dr. Michael Taylor is a platypus omega who keeps his house at nesting temperature, his schedule airtight, and his clinical voice running commentary on everything including his own loneliness. He's the only platypus in Bad Little Falls. He's been the only platypus in Bad Little Falls since 2012. He's fine.
Angus Burrows is an Australian wombat alpha on a temporary DEP rotation, sampling rivers and writing reports nobody reads. He's got a motel room with someone else's furniture, a coffee machine from the Clinton administration, and no plans past November.
Michael wasn't supposed to want anything this much. Angus wasn't supposed to stay.
Then blackflies drove a wombat out of his clothes on a riverbank, a platypus surfaced six feet away, and two burrowing animals recognized each other across the mud.
Now there's an omegaverse bond that hit like a current, a heat that isn't waiting for the clinical voice to finish its analysis, a town that assembled in the diner to say nothing and mean everything, and a deputy who has introduced a new color of tab to his clipboard.
Two unrelated species. Same bank. Same direction.
Convergent Evolution is a cozy, high-heat M/M omegaverse shifter romance with fated mates, knotting, small-town meddling, venomous ankles, cube-shaped droppings, and a guaranteed HEA. Sixth in the Bad Little Falls series. Includes a bonus short story.
171 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 28, 2026
About the author
E.C. Dane
20 books5 followersE.C. Dane writes M/M shifter romance from somewhere in New England, where the winters are unreasonable and the fictional characters have stronger opinions than most elected officials.
Before publishing, there were twenty-five-plus years of writing in online fiction communities, none of it for money, all of it for love and comments. That apprenticeship left habits that carried over intact: content notes that mean something, heat levels stated plainly, and endings you can trust. If you came up in those communities too, you already know the deal. Read the tags. The tags are honest.
Caldwell & Pike is M/M wolf-shifter romantic suspense. Two ex-Delta operators, twenty years side by side, newly married, trying to be civilians. It isn't going well. Established couple, high heat, live ammunition.
Common Ground is longer-form M/M omegaverse romance with more danger, bigger stakes, and plots that build across volumes. Fated mates who earn it the hard way. More teeth. Medium heat, and not fade to black.
Bad Little Falls is a different world entirely. Cozy, funny, explicit omegaverse with fated mates, small-town meddling, and a guaranteed happy ending in every book. There are drafts through Book 20 in various states of "needs editing." They're coming. The town keeps growing.
Safe Harbor runs alongside Common Ground: mpreg, warmth-forward, and labeled clearly on its own front door so nobody wanders in by accident.
Publishing is new. The learning curve is real. If you got here early, thank you for your patience while the author figures out which buttons do what and why there are so many of them.
Home is shared with five chaos foxes who run the household and allow a human to remain as a courtesy. Signing up for my newsletter gets you new release alerts plus two free welcome gifts: True North, the Caldwell & Pike prequel novella, and an exclusive short story set in Bad Little Falls. subscribepage.io/ecdane
The author welcomes derivative and transformative works based on any of these worlds. If you're inspired to write, draw, or create, please do. The author asks only that fanworks be posted to AO3 and locked to registered users, to keep content scrapers from reposting them to paid platforms without anyone's consent. The author does not read fanworks for legal and creative reasons, but is genuinely glad they exist.
Before publishing, there were twenty-five-plus years of writing in online fiction communities, none of it for money, all of it for love and comments. That apprenticeship left habits that carried over intact: content notes that mean something, heat levels stated plainly, and endings you can trust. If you came up in those communities too, you already know the deal. Read the tags. The tags are honest.
Caldwell & Pike is M/M wolf-shifter romantic suspense. Two ex-Delta operators, twenty years side by side, newly married, trying to be civilians. It isn't going well. Established couple, high heat, live ammunition.
Common Ground is longer-form M/M omegaverse romance with more danger, bigger stakes, and plots that build across volumes. Fated mates who earn it the hard way. More teeth. Medium heat, and not fade to black.
Bad Little Falls is a different world entirely. Cozy, funny, explicit omegaverse with fated mates, small-town meddling, and a guaranteed happy ending in every book. There are drafts through Book 20 in various states of "needs editing." They're coming. The town keeps growing.
Safe Harbor runs alongside Common Ground: mpreg, warmth-forward, and labeled clearly on its own front door so nobody wanders in by accident.
Publishing is new. The learning curve is real. If you got here early, thank you for your patience while the author figures out which buttons do what and why there are so many of them.
Home is shared with five chaos foxes who run the household and allow a human to remain as a courtesy. Signing up for my newsletter gets you new release alerts plus two free welcome gifts: True North, the Caldwell & Pike prequel novella, and an exclusive short story set in Bad Little Falls. subscribepage.io/ecdane
The author welcomes derivative and transformative works based on any of these worlds. If you're inspired to write, draw, or create, please do. The author asks only that fanworks be posted to AO3 and locked to registered users, to keep content scrapers from reposting them to paid platforms without anyone's consent. The author does not read fanworks for legal and creative reasons, but is genuinely glad they exist.
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April 1, 2026
Great new series
This series is so good. It just keeps gettingin better with every book! These books are sweet and funny (with a little bit of spice) shorter reads.
This series is so good. It just keeps gettingin better with every book! These books are sweet and funny (with a little bit of spice) shorter reads.
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