Racking the Reindeer
(2026)(The sixth book in the Kinky Kritters: Las Vegas series)
A novel by A J Marcus and Caitlin Ricci
He broke the one rule that can't be broken. Now the whole club gets to watch him make it right.
Rudy the reindeer has spent a year on the outside, sober, scraped down to nothing, and desperate to earn back the only family he's ever had. The lioness who owns Kinky Kritters is willing to open the door again. But not quietly. Not for free. On Christmas Eve, in front of every person he failed, Rudy will answer for what he did.
Thomas is the bear she brings in to do it. Retired, careful, and dangerous in the exact way that matters — he doesn't measure a man by how much he can endure. He measures whether he'll tell the truth while it's happening. And the truth Rudy's been running from his whole life is the one thing this enormous, patient predator refuses to let him hide.
One night on the rack was the deal. Nobody said anything about what happens after — when the bear takes the shaking reindeer home to a quiet ranch under a cold desert moon, and neither one of them wants to give the other back.
Grumpy/sunshine. Age gap. Hurt/comfort with teeth. A praise-and-care dynamic that runs hot and holds tender. Standalone with a HEA, set at Christmas, in a series readers call comfort reading with a filthy heart.
Rudy the reindeer has spent a year on the outside, sober, scraped down to nothing, and desperate to earn back the only family he's ever had. The lioness who owns Kinky Kritters is willing to open the door again. But not quietly. Not for free. On Christmas Eve, in front of every person he failed, Rudy will answer for what he did.
Thomas is the bear she brings in to do it. Retired, careful, and dangerous in the exact way that matters — he doesn't measure a man by how much he can endure. He measures whether he'll tell the truth while it's happening. And the truth Rudy's been running from his whole life is the one thing this enormous, patient predator refuses to let him hide.
One night on the rack was the deal. Nobody said anything about what happens after — when the bear takes the shaking reindeer home to a quiet ranch under a cold desert moon, and neither one of them wants to give the other back.
Grumpy/sunshine. Age gap. Hurt/comfort with teeth. A praise-and-care dynamic that runs hot and holds tender. Standalone with a HEA, set at Christmas, in a series readers call comfort reading with a filthy heart.