Claimed by the Horse Shifter
(2026)(The second book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifters series)
A novel by Ella Tucker
She can reach the man trapped inside the horse. She just doesn't know yet what saving him will cost her.
Veterinarian Colleen Carter came to Willowbrook with everything she owned in the back of her car and no way left to run. After the patient she couldn't save, she needs a quiet valley, honest work, and a place where nobody knows her name.
What she gets is a herd of horse shifters that watches her like it's been waiting, a guarded, grief-worn rancher who wants her gone by sundown, and one forbidden gray locked in a far paddock — a shifter so broken he's been trapped between man and horse for eight months, screaming, going under, forgetting he was ever human at all.
Caleb Turner tells her to stay away from the gray. He tells her only once.
She lasts five days.
Because Colleen can feel what that shifter is drowning in. She can reach the terrified man trapped inside him when eight months of the best hands on the ranch have failed — and pull him, strand by strand, back toward the surface. It's a gift Caleb has never seen. It's a gift that might finally bring back the best friend he's been blaming himself for since the night a smiling stranger drove up the mountain and took everything.
Now the stranger is coming back. And a gift like Colleen's doesn't stay secret for long — not from the traffickers who would give anything to own a woman who can keep their stolen shifters alive and suffering forever. As she falls for a man who's spent his whole life braced to lose everything, Colleen will have to decide how much of herself she's willing to pour out to haul a stranger back from the dark — and whether there's anyone at the top of the well who'll pull her back before she drowns too.
The second book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifter series. A sweet-with-heat small-town shifter romance featuring a grumpy guarded horse-shifter hero, a healer who can't walk away, a found family with secrets, and a valley that protects its own. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Veterinarian Colleen Carter came to Willowbrook with everything she owned in the back of her car and no way left to run. After the patient she couldn't save, she needs a quiet valley, honest work, and a place where nobody knows her name.
What she gets is a herd of horse shifters that watches her like it's been waiting, a guarded, grief-worn rancher who wants her gone by sundown, and one forbidden gray locked in a far paddock — a shifter so broken he's been trapped between man and horse for eight months, screaming, going under, forgetting he was ever human at all.
Caleb Turner tells her to stay away from the gray. He tells her only once.
She lasts five days.
Because Colleen can feel what that shifter is drowning in. She can reach the terrified man trapped inside him when eight months of the best hands on the ranch have failed — and pull him, strand by strand, back toward the surface. It's a gift Caleb has never seen. It's a gift that might finally bring back the best friend he's been blaming himself for since the night a smiling stranger drove up the mountain and took everything.
Now the stranger is coming back. And a gift like Colleen's doesn't stay secret for long — not from the traffickers who would give anything to own a woman who can keep their stolen shifters alive and suffering forever. As she falls for a man who's spent his whole life braced to lose everything, Colleen will have to decide how much of herself she's willing to pour out to haul a stranger back from the dark — and whether there's anyone at the top of the well who'll pull her back before she drowns too.
The second book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifter series. A sweet-with-heat small-town shifter romance featuring a grumpy guarded horse-shifter hero, a healer who can't walk away, a found family with secrets, and a valley that protects its own. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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