Lowell Hemming is stuck.
Grounded from his job as a photographer, this globe-trotting werewolf is pulling his hair out being back in his small hometown, with no end to the current situation in sight. The first Hemming to leave Cambric Creek in several generations, he's feeling the pressure from his mother to move back home permanently, is chafed by his inescapable family name, and hasn't gotten laid in months. When he picks up an intriguingly-worded flyer, he hopes that his boredom is about to come to an end.
For the first time in her life, Moriah has an open door of possibility before her. Recently divorced, she owns her own home, her interior design business is thriving, and she's free to do what she's always wanted — travel the world. There's only one thing holding her back — the desire to have a child. After trying for years, to the erosion of her marriage, she ready to put her dreams of travel aside and take drastic measures to get the one thing her heart desires above all else.
Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic offers a unique service — trigger a heat, and breed with a werewolf in a controlled setting, right before the full moon. Their success rates are higher than multi-species IVF, cheaper than adoption, and more enjoyable than most trips to a clinic.
When Moriah picks a handsome, dark-haired werewolf out of a catalog, it seems as easy as buying a pair of shoes. She doesn't count on liking him. He's funny, he's sexy, and once she takes his knot, Moriah isn't sure if she'll ever be able to see their relationship as a transaction.
When Lowell gets the call that he's been chosen by a clinic patient, all he's looking forward to is scratching a physical itch and possibly unlocking a new medical kink. Catching feelings is not part of the contract. But when he meets the gorgeous little redhead who's picked him, walking away from her after he's fulfilled his end of the contract is harder than he thought.
Hard to think of leaving . . . and it's not the only thing she makes hard.
Lowell & Moriah are the perfectly chaotic palette cleanser for Grayson & Vanessa.
I know that the panini, and similar themes, will be showing up more and more in the books that are yet to be written and released. The inclusion in this story worked really well to convey the stagnancy we experienced, without slowing down any of the "action." Because, you know, werewolves. :)
Lowell is an international photographer, and he gets kicked out of Japan because the humans have inferior immune systems. He goes from never sitting down, to being stuck in his home town....in his brother's guest room. Poor baby.
Moriah has been trying for a baby for years. It broke her marriage, and consumes her future plans. Her friend, who she met at the fertility clinic, tells her about a *new* clinic with much higher success ratings. The only catch is, it's not artificial insemination. It's "copulatory practice" with your chosen donor. (What a bonkers place Cambric Creek is!!! I love it!)
I hate books where the goal is to have a baby. But good lord was this everything. The perfect way to round out #hotwerewolfsummer. Lowell is oblivious, chaotic, and an absolute child. Moriah is nurturing and figuring out who she is after getting married too young and divorced still fairly young.
My favorite part was the relationship between the Hemmings brothers. It's chaos and love and their family is very cool. I don't know that I've said chaos enough, but that's my one word review of this book.
Chaos
ETA: Upon my second read of this book, it is just as chaotic as the first time. I loved it so much. Lowell is just as delightful in audio as he was the first time I read this.
The narrator did a wonderful job. He absolutely embodied the bisexual disaster that is Lowell Hemming. All that rereading this did was make me even more ravenous for more Cambric Creek, more Hemmings. Luckily I've got A Holly Jolly Mess waiting for me!! And A Blue Ribbon Romance queued up on audio. What a Merry Christmas for me. :)
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