Short, but doesn’t feel truncated
Setting: Colorado
Genre: Shifter romance
Ava, a self-employed graphic designer in Long View, Texas, hates Valentine’s Day. Well, not really. She doesn’t dislike it enough to poop on other people’s ooey gooey romance, but she is definitely over eating canned soup, all alone. On a whim, she decides she’ll at least plan a nice meal for herself and looks up unValentine’s Day recipes online. What she finds instead is an advert for an unValentine’s Day Party at a mountain lodge in Colorado. She fills out the reservation, but then answers no to the last question. She denies being a shifter. It isn’t like she’s a big, scary shifter. The most damage an armadillo shifter will do is dig a few burrows in your yard. But then she meets Brock, the very handsome, funny, kind owner...
This is a short story very much as entertaining as Joyce’s longer works. Not only grammatically correct, but the protagonists are fully developed, the plot is tight, and, as usual, the repartee is witty AF. Of course, everything is condensed. The conflict, the resolution, the sex, the HEA. And yes, I do wish it had been longer.