Blog Tour, New Excerpt & Giveaway:
A Chance With His Alpha
By Ava Beringer
Seven Corners Shifters, Book 2
I’m having a baby with my best friend to save the family business. He’s NOT in love with me. Is he?
Channarong Saithong, omega tiger shifter, only has time for two things; running his family’s restaurant, and pining after his best friend since the third grade, hot and playful alpha wolf Tristan Bolder. Pine is all he can do; Tristan wants them to be together for life, but only as best friends and bachelors. When a tragedy befalls the family, Channarong’s conniving uncle resurrects an ancient law to steal the business for himself. The only way to stop him is to…have a baby? There’s only one person Channarong wants this baby with. Tris agrees to help, but in saving his family’s business, will Channarong sacrifice his heart?
Tristan Bolder is a carefree, fun-loving alpha wolf, content to goof off forever with his best friend Channarong by his side. Who needs a mate, right? But when Channarong comes to him desperate for help, with a proposition that will turn Tristan’s world upside down, he can’t say no. Now he’s got a baby on the way, an evil uncle to ward off, and no way to tell his best friend about the new-found feelings for him. What’s an alpha to do?
Can Channarong save the family business? Can Tristan step up to protect what he loves? Can making a family bring out the truth of their love, and bring them together once and for all?
This is the second book in the Seven Corner Shifters series. Reading book one isn’t necessary to enjoy this story, but it is strongly recommended. This book has a HEA and contains occasional strong language, MPREG, and hot, spicy grownup stuff. The omegas are heating up and the alphas are very knotty boys.
Channarong is an omega tiger shifter who is in love with his best friend alpha wolf Tristan. They’ve been friends for years and know one another inside and out, but somehow they’ve never addressed the romantic tension they have. Literally, everyone else thinks they are mates, but Tristan always assures that the two are just friends. When Channarong’s family restaurant is threatened by an alpha calling in outdated alpha-centric law, Channarong knows he has to prove that he has a capable alpha to run the business for him. Either he has to find his mate or have a child that has the possibility of presenting as an alpha later in life. He decides to go the child route and the only person he trusts with this responsibility is his best friend of many years, Tristan.
This Alpha/Omega romance was so sweet! So many of these stories include such toxic elements. I overlooked those elements when reading them in late high school, but I can’t overlook them anymore. Thankfully, this book doesn’t include a toxic romance at all and just includes a very sweet romance between two clueless best friends.
Channarong and Tristan are my favorite couple in this series so far. THey are so sweet and funny, and they also have so much history together. Tristan is already a part of Channarong’s family from the start of the novel due to being best friends for so long. They’ve had plenty of cute and slightly romantic moments throughout their many years together, but these moments somehow never lead to a real romantic relationship blooming until the start of this book.
The non-romantic story of this book was also really interesting. I loved reading about Channarong’s family restaurant and the struggle of keeping it from toxic family members. It was enough backstory to keep me interested throughout the roller coaster of a childhood friends-to-lovers romance tale. The only thing that I would say is that I wish the book had lasted even longer! It felt longer than the first book of this series, but this author is talented and should definitely look into writing a more detailed world for this fantasy romance series.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a new adult romance novel to read.
I received a copy of this book and this is my voluntary review.
Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 books.
Special Blog Tour Excerpt:
“You said you’d do whatever it took to help me. You promised.” Channarong stroked my hair softly with his free hand. I groaned. I did promise. I told him I’d fix it, no matter what it took. His shoulders drooped. His face crumpled with heartbreak and I couldn’t stand it. “I’m sorry. It’s wrong for me to pressure you into this kind of help. Should I find somebody else, then?”
Channarong having a baby by some unknown alpha? Tied to them forever? Tied to them, like, knotted?
“I said, hell no!” I barked. He’s mine. I checked myself, calmed my racing heart and flaring temper. “No,” I said softer, trying for a teasing smile. “If you need a sperm donor, hot stuff, it might as well be me.”
He lit up, shuffling on my desk, making his quads tighten and flex and his thyme scent stronger. “So we’re having a baby together. And we’ll still be bros? Bachelors together forever, like you said? Just with a cute mini-me.”
“Damn. That sounds really good, actually.” Better than it should for such a crazy idea, but I was about to hit the big three-oh. I wanted to settle down and have a couple of sprouts at some point. Why not have a little one with my best friend? We knew each other better than anybody and we’d make a great team.
His scent was overwhelming. Every ounce the Channarong I’d always known, laced with hints of receptivity.
“So, uh,” I chuckled nervously. We were still all up in each other’s bubbles, still holding hands. Channarong still had no pants on and my brain was fuzzy, struggling to process logical thoughts. “You got a turkey baster ready?”
Channarong bit his lip, looking down at the floor, waving a hand in front of himself, as if I needed to be reminded of his beautiful body right there and how he wanted to give it to me. At least for the moment. “I was thinking we could do it the old-fashioned way. Fast. Convenient. Free.”
Catch-Up on Seven Corners Shifters Series with Book 1: His Protective Alpha
The last thing I wanted was to run from my past straight into my fated mate.
Omega wolf Rashad Hall is running. He needs a safe place to start over, and the last thing he wants is an alpha. When he steps into Seven Corners and immediately scents “mate,” he fights his most basic impulse to seek out his one true love, Bronx Bolder, the lead alpha who has to grant permission to stay on his territory. Instead Rashad trespasses, courting disaster, but he’s irresistibly drawn the strong, tempting, in-control alpha. Rashad can’t let go of his fears. What happens when he can’t stay away from Bronx, either?
Alpha wolf Bronx Bolder can’t find an omega strong enough to stand by his side, and he’s tired of looking. When he discovers omega wolf Rashad started a small successful business on his territory, Bronx starts out feeling irked but soon comes to admire Rashad’s fighting spirit. When he realizes they’re fated mates, it’s easy to fall in love- and into bed- with the alluring, mysterious omega. Rashad pulls Bronx close, then pushes him away. Rashad’s keeping a lot of secrets, including the result of their tryst- a pregnancy. When Rashad’s past comes back to bite him, can Bronx protect him and the new life in his womb?
What’s Rashad running from? How will his past come back to haunt him? Can Bronx help his fated mate overcome his fears for a chance at true love?
Rashad is looking for a safe place to stay and build a life for himself. He doesn’t want a relationship, he doesn’t want to talk to any alphas, he just wants to be able to hole up and be happy for the first time in a long time. When he arrives in Seven Corners, he immediately catches the scent of his mate. But he can’t let that distract him, even when Alpha Bronx is very, very tempting. He just found his safe place and nothing is going to take that away from him, certainly not an alpha.
I have read many, many ABO fanfiction stories, but I am just starting to delve into the published stories of this category. So many stories with this fantasy trope end up having extremely toxic romance. This series is different.
Rashad isn’t a helpless omega. He is able to successfully run away from a toxic relationship, start a small business, and make a life for himself in Seven Corners. He doesn’t NEED an alpha to do any of these things and would have continued to be successful without Bronx coming into his life. This author does not make it seem like an omega’s life is meaningless without an alpha, clearly Rashad led a meaningful life in Seven Corners without a mate. People weren’t trying to push him to pair up with someone for half the book. They were excited when they got hints that he may have a mate, but it was more because they thought Bronx could make him truly happy as they were a good match for one another.
The romance in this book was a bit sporadic. Rashad wasn’t looking for a mate, but he happened to find one. Sometimes they would give in to their urges and then barely act romantic towards each other for a chapter or two.
The only thing that kept this short story from being a 5-star basic romance for me was that it felt a little rushed and rather bare-bones when it came to the worldbuilding. I wasn’t expecting the world here as I knew this book was only 113 pages. Nevertheless, this book was set in a really unique space where many different packs lived quite close to one another (Seven Corners). There could have been a lot more done with pack politics, but instead, this book stayed a very basic romance. I still enjoyed the romance part of it, but don’t come in expecting too much more.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for an adult romance novel to read.
I received a copy of this book and this is my voluntary review.
Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 books.
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About the Author:
Ava Beringer is a major-league nerd who started off writing fanfiction and fell in love with mpreg and omegaverse. She loves to heat up a slick omega and a knotty alpha. By day she’s a good thirty-something midwestern girl, but she has a dark side. Okay, not really. She’s as bubbly as champagne but she can be pretty darn cheeky when you get her going.
She’s an aspiring digital nomad who’s traveled to thirty-two countries and counting. If she’s lucky, a cat will adopt her along the way.
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