Protecting Our Mate

Ash Mountain Pack #5

by Shaw Hart, Skye Alder

Raven Fuller is terrified. She came home last night to find her stalker waiting for her in her bedroom and she had panicked, packing a bag and fleeing. She drives until she can’t keep her eyes open any longer. Spying an abandoned cabin in the woods, she decides to crash there for a couple of hours and rest her eyes.

Kai Cook and Easton Wright have always been the closest friends. Their the best hunters in the pack and it’s probably because they always seem to know what the other is thinking. They’re out hunting when they scent her. Their mate. They’re confused at first. No one has ever heard of shifters mating with the same girl before but their wolves are positive that she’s meant for them.

When they learn that their mate is running from someone, they’re suddenly grateful that there’s two of them. They just might need it if they want to protect their mate.

*Warning: This shifter instalove is HOT! It’s a short, quick read but trust me, it’s not lacking in steam or romance.

Genres: Shapeshifters, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, M F M, Menage, Romance, Erotica

70 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2021

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USA Today and Amazon Top 100 Bestselling Author Shaw Hart writes short, sweet, and steamy romances. Looking for some flirty, feel good reads? Then check out her books on Amazon!

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Reviews

[Carmen Rae · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok seriously who could be upset being between these two sweet, sexy shifters?

[Granger McGringot · Rating 5 out of 5]

Is this the final book of the series? Is it really? I'm not ready yet to let go of this series. But, if it is, this one is definitely an icing on the cake. Nothing beats an ending of the series with quite a steamy menage MFM shifter mating rituals!!
It has all the good quality of hottie MFM shifter romance: two possessive-dash-protective alpha H shifters, one willing (not to mention on heat) h on the run, one secluded cabin in the middle of the wood, and one willing starving reader like me.

[Liz · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's been done.

[Raveen Vann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved

This series has been really great so far and this book is absolutely no different. I love that Kai and Easton both got Raven as a mate together as it works perfectly for them. They definitely all have a deep bond and I love the way they are with her.

[♡Tonya♡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars

Safe menage stories are hard to find.

-no cheating
-no others after meeting
-all virgins
-good epilogue a few months then 10 years

[Darlene I read WAY to many books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Raven has a problem she has a stalker who won't leave her alone. He followed her around everywhere and the last straw was when he showed up inside her bedroom. So Raven takes off driving in the middle of the day/night to get far away from the crazy dude and lands in Ash Mountain shes lost and freezing she faints but is caught by Kai and Eatson when they both smelled their mate.

 Shocked and confused that they have the same mate they don't fight they are best friends. Now they gotta convince their new houseguest to stay with them forever.. they also have to tell her about shifters and take care of that nasty stakker.

Om drama no ow drama, No cheating,Tiny drama, sexy time, all virgin no manwhores

Recommend- yes
Cover-⭐⭐⭐⭐

Slowish-insta
Slight push away by h
Shifters
Anal play/sex
Safe-ish
No condom
M/F/M
Hea
Epilogue

[Geeky Girl Review Cafe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't believe Shaw found a way to write a shifter book in a way I've never seen before. 2 mates for one woman! Wow, was it hot! What woman wouldn't want two totally devoted men all for herself?!

In case you are wondering I'll answer that question for you right away. The action is all for Raven, there is NO M/M interaction between Kai and Easton..they are best friends, no more.

I love that even though Kai and Easton knew instantly that Raven was their mate, they went slow and didn't rush her because it was what she needed. Seriously, that's dream guy/shifter right there!

I've enjoyed this series and how Shaw managed to make each story unique and all her own, but a best friends shifter menage wins the day!

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

Kai and Easton are a sexy, delicious duo. Raven hit the jackpot when she stumbled on Ash Mountain. These men were shocked at having the same mate but were more than willing to share and excited about the future when they accepted the idea. Raven took a little convincing but was sure about her men pretty quickly. Her stalker didn’t stand a chance against two wolves who were willing to die for their mate.

Safety and Spoilers
Completely safe. No ow drama, h has a stalker that forced her to flee her home. All three are virgins. No abuse. There is anal sex for those that care.

[Kate V · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 smut-scale stars!

Raven is running from a stalker and finds herself in Ash Mountain and at a cabin hoping for some rest before continuing on her journey. Little does she know that she is in for a big surprise when not one but TWO shifters tell her she's their mate.

Kai and Easton do everything together and it turns out that they'll also share a fated mate together too. They're more than happy to claim the beauty that shows up at their cabin and make her the happiest woman for the rest of their lives.

But with Raven running from something, will these two hotties be able to save her and convince her they're meant to be?

Short, smutty, and cute!

[Sandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Two for one

I love a ménage story. These 2 wolves are so ready for their mate. Everyone around them has found love. They are all surprised that Raven is theirs to share. A little action and suspense as Raven is on the run. Sweet epilogues!

[LiLu · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this story. I am way over the whole multiple partners wave that happened a while back. I have throughly enjoyed the books in this series so far, so I wanted to see how this one stacked up. The previous books in this series, sets up how connected Kai & Easton are, and have always been. They are surprised but, but it makes sense to them that they have the same mate. They don’t fight over her. Everything, I mean everything is about her. That is what makes this story different. That is what makes this story better and special. I am glad I took that chance on reading this book. This author knows how to write the romance, write the love, and the super special HEA, that is theirs and theirs alone. It wrapped up this series, yet, let an open door for more. A special story, not to be missed.

[Cherie Snyder · Rating 5 out of 5]

2 hot, alpha shifters......be still my beating heart!!

Raven is on the run from a stalker. In the middle of a snow storm, she sees what she thinks in an abandoned cabin and tries to make her way there. Kai and Easton are out hunting when their wolves scent their mate. They are both completely confused because they've never heard of 2 wolves having the same mate but neither of them are thrown off of the idea because they have always been close. Raven is, of course, completely confused because she never even knew that shifters existed. There is some drama with the stalker but, of course, they'll get their happily ever after. LOVED IT!!! I'm definitely sad to see this series come to an end.

[Jami · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one was probably my favorite of the shorter series!!! Easton and Kai love their mate and will do whatever it takes to protect her.

-safe read
-triple virgins
-no om/ow drama (h has a stalker)
-epilogues 1 month and 10 years

[Joan Countryman · Rating 5 out of 5]

protecting Our Mate (Ash Mountain Pack Book 5)

I LOVED this series I could not stop until I read all 5 of the series, I really enjoyed Shaw Hart 's books. I really hope you read the series I know you will enjoy it. I recommend 18 and up .

[Sil · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Los metamorfos tienen compañeros. Están predestinados y una vez que un metamorfo encuentra al suyo, nunca habrá otro para ellos, Tú eres nuestra compañera, de Easton, y la mía, y te amaremos y protegeremos hasta el día de nuestra muerte”

📖: Protegiendo a nuestra compañera
✏️: Skye Alder
⭐️: 𝟯

𝐋𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐚́𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞
🐺 Quinto libro de la serie La manada de Ash Mountain
🐺 Fantasía + romance
🐺 Almas gemelas
🐺 Instalove
🐺 Pueblo pequeño
🐺 Un trío: dos hombres metamorfos a lobo y una humana
🐺 Posesividad
🐺 Escenas spicy
🐺 Dos POV´s
🐺 Narrado en primera persona

Ash Mountain es el hogar de los metamorfos, personas que son capaces de transformarse de humanos a animales a su voluntad. La mayoría son cambiantes de lobo aunque hay uno o dos cambiantes de osos que viven en las afueras del pueblo.

Algo que caracteriza a todos los metamorfos es que se la pasan buscando a su verdadera compañera, por lo que si no tienen compañera o compañero andan siempre solos y célibes.

Este es el quinto libro de la serie por lo que nos encontramos con la historia de Easton, Kai y Raven.

Easton y Kai siempre han sido los mejores amigos y cazando es cuando huelen a su compañera, aunque están confundidos ya que nunca nadie había oído hablar de que dos metamorfos se apareen con la misma chica.

Raven está huyendo de su acosador y es ahí donde el destino hace que se reúna con sus compañeros.

La historia es muy corta, tiene 74 páginas por lo que todo sucede muy rápido. Todo va al grano. Hacia el final del libro te enseñan qué ha pasado 10 años después.

No hay mucho más que contar, la trama es muy sencilla y está narrada en primera persona por ambos protagonistas. Se lee en una sentada.

En general, no me aburrió, es solo que es muy meh y tiene sus cosillas pero me recuerda a las historias que leía hace muchos años por eso continué con esta serie.

[hottie men · Rating 4 out of 5]

Protecting Our Mate is the story of Easton, Kai, and Raven.

She has a stalker and decides to skip towns to be free of him but she can’t and on the way is exhausted because she’s been driving for 2 days so she tries to run to their cabin but on the way back Kai and Easton in their wolf forms both are attracted to the scent which is uncommon but they quickly right it when they fall in love with her, he stalker catches up with her but they deal with it and finally claim her and OOF SHAW HART writes GOOD ASS SMUT. Anyways so yh. They have 5 cubs, Jon, James, Sascha, Ruby and Gio.

Solid 4/5

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay

I enjoyed the previous four more then this one, but this one was still pretty good. I did enjoy reading 8it.

[Christie · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 smut stars

[Kellyythoralabatalla · Rating 2 out of 5]

Otro libro sobre hombres lobos y su mate. X2

[laurita · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5⭐️

relación poliamorosa = libro fav de toda la saga!!

por si tenían curiosidad, orden de mi pareja fav a la menos fav:
1- protegiendo (5)
2- gruñendo (1)
3- para toda la vida (3)
4- persiguiendo (4)
5- reclamando (2)

[Ꭿຖᥲ·♡ ྀི · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5✯

°Virgin MCs
°Multiple POVs
°Insta love/lust
°MCs faithful after meeting
°MFM (No MM scenes)
°OTT alpha heroes
°No OW drama
°No separation
°No cheating
°No pushing away
°Intimate scenes only between the MCs
°Epilogue: 1 month and 10 years later they have 5 children

[B K · Rating 1 out of 5]

The plot drew me in, but oh my god, was it bad.

I understand that this story is supposed to be short and sweet, but short doesn't mean there shouldn't be description. So much of the story followed the format of, 'We did this. We then did that.' I often found myself lost at to where we were, because everything was described in one sentence.

Raven first meets her two mates after she has woken up in their home/cabin, and is somehow not panicked, even though the last thing she remembers is passing out?? After they have breakfast, she asks if she can stretch (yoga) and the whole time, the men are watching her and moaning at her, and Raven doesn't find it uncomfortable or even weird. At this point, she knows nothing about them being her mates.
And once she is told they are wolf shifters and mates, on the same day she first meets them, she takes no more than 5 minutes to process and accept it. She really only asks them to shift, and somehow she claims to seeing them in the woods earlier...even though she had passed out.

When we are first introduced to her mates, she describes a few of their physical characteristics, but we are not given their names, and have no clue who is who. I can't even remember their names and I finished the book an hour ago. The two mates are so similar, I don't know why there are two. They have absolutely no differences besides hair colour and maybe eye colour - but again - we don't know who is who.

Continuing to Raven. At some point, Raven introduces herself, and in turn, one of her mates thinks this, "I realise we never got around to introductions. It doesn't matter to us, she will be ours either way."
W0w! How romantic! How lovely to hear the man that the fmc is supposed to fall for, not care about the literal start of their relationship. I understand its supposed to be possessive and sexy, but it does not read like that.
Just like the male characters, Raven poses no characteristics at all except for her ability to do and teach yoga. And that is literally the only thing she is associated with. She taught yoga in the town she lived in before, she does yoga in the cabin, and she's teaching yoga a decade later. That's it.

And then there's the stalker aspect. I liked this aspect and it was the reason I clicked on this book in the first place, being a slight twist to a typical shifter romance. The stalker however, made no sense. I'm not sure if it was just poorly planned? The stalker was able to follow Raven to a random town after she had driven 24 hours straight and know the exact cabin she was staying in. It is just not possible.

At some point, Raven goes grocery shopping with her mates and she stares at the condom section. Apparently that was like a fucking crime, and its a big no, no from one of the mates, as he tells her no. I mean..fuck Raven for just trying to protect herself, am I right? Mind you, it had been 1-2 days at this point. But it does have my favourite line from one of the mates, "I shoot one last dirty look at the condom selection."

Now to the 'spice'. Okay, spice wasn't too bad. Not the longest or most complex scenes, and that's fine. But, how the hell did Raven go from having her first kiss to dp anal in two days??!! With 1 minute of prep and no lube. Ouch!

[Nikole · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fast paced instalove story. It starts off with the girl on the run from her stalker when she ends up finding her 2 fated mates. (Lucky right? :D)
I normally hate insta-love stories but this was actually not too bad. She actually gave them a couple days to prove to her why she should stay. She still said 'I love you' after 2 days tho hahaha

The story was short and everything went by so fast. It had a few different aspects than other shifter books I've read. Like 1- the girl finds out there shifters even though she NEVER heard of this being real before and guess what - she DOESN'T freak out, like at all! crazy right?
2- now this one was funny - they apparently can't cum until they are mated. So like - puberty and being a teenager must've REALLY sucked for them boys :D I was dying. I would've died not being able to cum until mated. like DAMN

The spice was good. I really enjoyed it :) It's a MFM trope
When they kissed she made it out to be like that was her first ever kiss.. but she obviously wasn't a virgin - so hoow? I was a little thrown by that. But I may have misunderstood

Either way, it was a cute, short, fated mate, shifter story

[Yanes · Rating 2 out of 5]

This series is exactly how it is described by the end of the blurb:

“ This is an instalove shifter romance! Is it sweet? Absolutely. Is it steamy? You must be new here.“
“ This an instalove romance with so much heat. Like seriously, guys. It’s also a 100% completely safe shifter book with no cheating and a HEA.”
“ This is an instalove shifter romance! Is it sweet? Absolutely. Is it steamy? You must be new here.“
“ This instalove shifter story is quick and dirty with plenty of heat! Looking for a hero who is obsessed with his mate? Then this is the book for you!“
“ This shifter instalove is HOT! It’s a short, quick read but trust me, it’s not lacking in steam or romance.”

You really get all those things. Don’t believe me dive into it and get to know the sexy alphamales.

I would rate all of the books higher if I had more plot. You have all the steaminess and dirtiness and no plot. Still I wanted to read all of them. These books are quick to read and I enjoyed the time while reading.

[Aspen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm a bit disappointed that the authors decided to be lazy and write about the last two single guys out of the circle of friends got the same mate, and not each their own, especially since it's never happened before in their shifter history. I'm not really into the whole more than one partner thing and this book just continues to solidify that fact. I also wanted more of Brock, or at least the fear he was supposed to bring to the table, instead he's really only mentioned in her inner thoughts and then appears briefly (like less than a page), doesn't say anything and then he's dead. I thought maybe the gun going off would've ended with one of them being hurt but nope, not even a scratch or anything. It was all very boring as far as plot goes and it's obvious the authors were more interested in writing about them fucking her than any sort of story.

Over all, meh, it was about as good as the last one and I'm not sure if I'll look for books under either authors name as they didn't really end on a high note for me.

[Stacey · Rating 4 out of 5]

providing a review after I received a complimentary copy of the book from the author

hot! hot! hot!
mfm book

ok so the whole idea of shifters and mates and marking their mates is not new but this was still good.

new twist they cant cum until they had marked their mate (so virgins?). and she marked them back, you don't always get that.

liked the characters, good sex scenes.

this was the first book i read in the series would definitely read the others, but since it was new for two wolves to be mated to the same women a going to think it is a shame the others mates only get one wolf, so wish i had read them from the start although a stand alone book.

i enjoyed the book being told from different points of view.

love when a book has a epilogue

would read again
would read others in the series
would recommend

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this story. It was odd for me because of the ménage thing, but it was still entertaining and enjoyable. The characters were interesting and likable. While this was a ménage story, it was all about her which made it feel more like a traditional romance with both of the guys trying to get to know her better. Kai and Easton were best friends and so close they were practically brothers. Raven was on the run from a stalker that kept getting closer and closer to her. The guys find Raven as she was walking in the snow towards shelter. Kai felt that Raven was his mate. Easton felt that Raven was his mate. Their wolves agreed that Raven belonged to them but they had to get her on the same page as them. There was some drama and a bit of angst but it resolved quickly. I liked their happily ever after. I recommend reading this book.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Protecting our mate is the fifth and final (I think) book in the Ash Mountain pack series. This story is short, fast paced and an enjoyable read. I read this book in one sitting and was satisfied throughout. I found the writing style easy to follow, the characters likeable and the storyline enjoyable.
After finding her stalker in her house, Raven packs a bag and leaves town. Finding an abandoned cabin in the woods, she decides to take cover in it. Kai and Easton are surprised and shocked when they discover they share a mate.
The chemistry between Easton, Kai and Raven is clear to see and I liked them together. They made a cute trio.
I really liked the ending and the epilogue for this story.
The storyline for this book is easy to follow and it is an enjoyable read.

[Lissa Smith Reads'~A Bookaholics Bookshelf · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, it's like this, once I finished reading and reviewing 'Growling For My Mate' book one in the 'Ash Mountain Pack' series I devoured the other four one after the other. So please over look the other 4 packed into one review.

Each boom has its own synopsis/ story line. They are all full of instalove, faithful mates, with absolutely no cheating. Yes they are super sweet. But *fans self* have some very hot, steamy sex scenes. Best if all, each book has an epilogue flash forward by a time; then a 10 years in the future.

I have enjoyed a small glimpse into the Ash Mountain Pack and would be first on board to read full blown books with these characters and more.

If you more deets that make these story a whole. Your just going to have give it a read. I promise you will not be disappointed. I also noticed after the fact this series in in a box set.
~Laters Peeps

[Brice · Rating 2 out of 5]

As the last installment and an MFM to boot, I was hoping it would be way better than the previous books. It's double the wolfmen, so I thought we'd be getting double the heat and double the plot, especially with that blurb. But it wasn't like that, unfortunately. Books 1 to 3 were so good, especially book 3 in my opinion. That one's gotta be my favorite out of all 5. Book 4 kinda fell off, but I was expecting a comeback with this, but it didn't. Honestly, Protecting Our Mate gives the same feels as the previous book but with a faster pace, twice the men, and an added stalker.


Plot: 👌👌
Characters: 👌👌
Spice: 🌶️🌶️

POV: MPOV. 1st Person.
OW/OM Drama: NONE.
HEA: YES and with epilogues.