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Trusting Like a Fox: A Small Town Fox Shifter Later in Life Steamy Paranormal Rom-Com
A small-town opposites attract romantic comedy featuring a human fraud examiner, an impossibly honest fox shifter mechanic, and one delightfully meddlesome Montana town.
She can spot a lie at forty paces. She never saw love coming.
April Freeson has spent eleven years catching liars for a living. Now she's hung her shingle in Sly Creek, Montana — population six hundred, all of them apparently insane — where her first client wants a once-missing garden gnome investigated for "returning better than it left," and her second client is a fox without an appointment.
Then there's the mechanic.
Allen Slytail is Sly Creek's mechanic, a fox shifter with an inconvenient habit of telling the truth. He doesn't invent repairs, pad invoices, or dodge difficult conversations.
Which, naturally, makes him the most suspicious man April has ever met. Nobody's that honest.
Determined to uncover what he's hiding, April opens a case file on Allen.
Big mistake.
Because while she's searching for evidence, Sly Creek keeps throwing them together—at festivals, in the garage, over coffee she never ordered, and through one suspiciously convenient mishap after another. The town seems oddly invested in their future, Allen refuses to stop being infuriatingly genuine, and every clue points toward the one conclusion April can't prove.
She isn't falling for a con. She's falling in love.
And that's one case no amount of evidence can solve.
Welcome to Sly Creek, where fox shifters fix more than engines, neighbors treat matchmaking like a civic duty, garden gnomes inspire investigations, and happily-ever-afters are everyone's favorite community project.
Perfect for readers who Small-town romantic comediesParanormal romance with fox shiftersOpposites attractHuman heroine × shifter heroCinnamon roll heroesSlow-burn romanceMatchmaking townsfolkQuirky small-town communitiesCozy mysteries without the murderFish-out-of-water heroinesWorkplace romanceFound familyLaugh-out-loud banterHumor with heartFeel-good happily ever afterAnd, of course… garden gnomes.
She can spot a lie at forty paces. She never saw love coming.
April Freeson has spent eleven years catching liars for a living. Now she's hung her shingle in Sly Creek, Montana — population six hundred, all of them apparently insane — where her first client wants a once-missing garden gnome investigated for "returning better than it left," and her second client is a fox without an appointment.
Then there's the mechanic.
Allen Slytail is Sly Creek's mechanic, a fox shifter with an inconvenient habit of telling the truth. He doesn't invent repairs, pad invoices, or dodge difficult conversations.
Which, naturally, makes him the most suspicious man April has ever met. Nobody's that honest.
Determined to uncover what he's hiding, April opens a case file on Allen.
Big mistake.
Because while she's searching for evidence, Sly Creek keeps throwing them together—at festivals, in the garage, over coffee she never ordered, and through one suspiciously convenient mishap after another. The town seems oddly invested in their future, Allen refuses to stop being infuriatingly genuine, and every clue points toward the one conclusion April can't prove.
She isn't falling for a con. She's falling in love.
And that's one case no amount of evidence can solve.
Welcome to Sly Creek, where fox shifters fix more than engines, neighbors treat matchmaking like a civic duty, garden gnomes inspire investigations, and happily-ever-afters are everyone's favorite community project.
Perfect for readers who Small-town romantic comediesParanormal romance with fox shiftersOpposites attractHuman heroine × shifter heroCinnamon roll heroesSlow-burn romanceMatchmaking townsfolkQuirky small-town communitiesCozy mysteries without the murderFish-out-of-water heroinesWorkplace romanceFound familyLaugh-out-loud banterHumor with heartFeel-good happily ever afterAnd, of course… garden gnomes.
202 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 16, 2026
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