The Mating Game by Lana Ferguson (Dec 2, 2025) Thank you, @berkleyromance and @prhaudio for the gifted digital and audio copies! #berkley #berkleypartner #prhaudioinfluencer
Set in the same world as The Fake Mate where shifters are a regular part of society, Contractor Tess Covington and her brothers are all non-shifter humans on the verge of taking their wildly popular renovation-themed social media presence to the next level. Their new project is updating a lodge outside Denver. But the minute Tess touches down at Denver International, she heads to the hospital because she feels terrible. Instead of being diagnosed with the flu, Tess receives the shocking news that she’s actually a late-presenting Omega shifter. But she can’t let this life-altering news get in the way of the job at hand. Except when she arrives, she discovers that the owner is Alpha shifter Hunter Barrett. He’s content to live a quiet, isolated life but the Alpha-Omega pull is undeniable and as the weeks of working in close proximity progress, their attraction evolves from a magnetic need to a want, but there can’t be any future when she’s on the move job to job and he’s running the family business.
Lana consistently writes wildly entertaining books and if you liked The Fake Mate, you are going to eat this one up. It is full of shenanigans and a whole lot of spice. Like a lot. Which, you expect from a Lana Ferguson book. We met Hunter in The Fake Mate and this lodge is also the setting for a some of the pivotal components of that book as well. Hunter and Tess are both great. They have some interesting back stories. I’m hopeful that we’ll get another book in this series that plays off of some of the secondary characters in this book, because she spent a lot of time developing backstories for characters and it would be strange if that didn’t pay off somewhere else in this universe.
🎧 Audiobook Thoughts: Aaron Shedlock and Samantha Summers shine in their duet performance, infusing so much into Tess and Hunter that made me love them even more than I think I would have if I only eyeball-read the story. (11h 48m)
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
🎧 Audio performance: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🔥 Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
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