The Hunting Season. The Vorreth World Book Two, #2

For a true crime podcaster, the real mystery is the man who knows too much-and the way he makes her feel. Jade Okafor has spent three years investigating the Wicker Park disappearances: seventeen people taken for exactly fourteen hours, then returned with surgical memory gaps. Forty thousand subscribers follow her investigation on The Vanishing Hour. She's forty-eight hours from publishing when a stranger shows up at her door and tells her to stop.
Riven doesn't have the authority to stop her, but he knows what she's investigating will expose something Chicago isn't ready to understand. The Vorreth have been hidden in plain sight for centuries. One of them-something ancient, no one quite understands-has woken up hungry. When Riven hears her voice through a closed door, the Recognition triggers: a biological bonding that means he will spend the rest of his life filling her coffee maker before she asks, tracking her movements, wanting to keep her close enough to protect.
She's his Claiming-and he's supposed to contain her investigation, not fall into something irreversible with her. The Claiming is everything Jade didn't expect. Not urgent-methodical. Not gentle-deliberate. In the backseat of a car on South Racine Street at 3:17am, with the city's secrets unraveling around them, Riven and Jade complete a bonding that leaves them both breathless and connected in ways Jade didn't know existed.
It's intense, explicit, and entirely structural to who they become together. Across the city, an archivist discovers a building full of secrets. Simone arrives at the Aldine Building to catalog its extraordinary collection and ends up triggering something equally dangerous: Draven's second Claiming. For ninety years, he believed the first one was his only chance at bonding. Now she's walking through doors in his archive, asking questions nobody has asked in centuries, and he's filling the coffee maker before she wakes up-decisions happening below the level of decision-making.
Together, these two pairs will have to navigate the gap between what humans can know and what the Vorreth can reveal. Between investigation and intervention. Between the bonds that hold them and the secrets that could destroy everything. The Hunting Season is a paranormal romance about being claimed by someone you didn't know you were looking for-and discovering that love isn't always convenient, but it's always structural.
Explicit, intense, and utterly transformative. Can be read standalone. Start anywhere. Stay forever.