It would serve as a distraction, at least. He’d have been there all night if he had backspaced over everything, but he was too much of a fucking coward to select all and hit delete. Then he’d begun to erase more, backward and backward, until his finger got tired and he’d closed the file with a disgusted grunt. He’d stared at it that day, and again the next, typed a grand total of seventeen words and deleted them all. Every word he put down on the page was worse than the last, more trite, more predictable, until this past week he hadn’t been able to stomach going further. He was halfway through the twelfth draft-Christ, even thinking that was depressing-and to be honest, he wasn’t even halfway. Dmitri took a deep breath, noted every scent, then sank back into the seat and tried to figure out what the hell to do about his book. Even the glass panes in the windows had a scent, like gypsum. The smells of the school bus surrounded him-the guys, their pregame adrenaline, the old vinyl seats, the oily odor of the linoleum down the aisle. Snowy January scrub drifted past as they rode the eleven miles to the game.

The moon was almost full again, and Dmitri’s skin itched with it. Originally published in 2015 & 2016 as novellas, the GRIZZLY RIM novel editions have been extensively revised and expanded for republication in 2019. Tropes: age gap (39/27), grumpy vs playful, fated mates, forced proximityĬontent Notes: This story depicts sports violence (hockey), and unreliable parents. Lace up for pheromone-charged hockey, dirty French lessons, a grumpy hero who thinks he's past his prime, and a pushy young hothead determined to prove him wrong. SURRENDER THE CHASE is the 2nd novel in the GRIZZLY RIM m/m shifter series. Now all he has to do is convince Dmitri Sernov to be his alpha. Once a prospect for Canada's Olympic hockey team, he's just been kicked off a piddling local squad in Nowhere, Alaska.īut one whiff of the silver wolf on the opposing bench was enough to confirm that the dreams drawing Thierry across a continent have a very real source. Thierry Marrou has burned every bridge from Montréal to Juneau. The last thing he needs is a beautiful, intimidating, obnoxious pup bent on exposing Dmitri's underbelly… He's staring down forty with a creative well as empty as his bed.

His late-night hunts leave him winded, the twelfth rewrite of his novel is crap, and his last good lay was five drafts ago. A lone-wolf writer and the playful hockey-star muse he never asked for…įor wolf shifter Dmitri Sernov, life bites.

Surrender the Chase by Mia West