Drawn to the Horse Shifter
(2026)(The fourth book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifters series)
A novel by Ella Tucker
She left him once to keep him safe. This time, staying might be the bravest thing she’s ever done.
Dawson Reed has spent most of his life being the easy one. The man with the joke ready, the truck everyone borrows, and a place at every table in Willowbrook. He’s human in a family filled with horse shifters, gifted women, and enough magic to make an ordinary man wonder sometimes exactly where he fits.
He knows one thing for certain.
Eight years ago, Maddie Cole broke his heart.
He never expected to see her coming up the Willowbrook road again.
Maddie has spent those eight years helping endangered shifters disappear before the wrong people can find them. She learned early that anyone she loves can become leverage, so when a trafficker showed her a photograph of Dawson, she did the only thing she knew how to do.
She ran.
Now she’s back with Amber, a frightened teenage horse shifter who needs somewhere safe to land, and Maddie has every intention of leaving again as soon as the danger passes.
Willowbrook has other ideas.
The valley recognizes Maddie almost immediately. So does the horse inside her. And when Dawson touches her in shifted form, Maddie finally understands the connection she refused to name eight years ago.
Dawson is her mate.
There’s only one problem.
He’s human.
He can’t feel the bond she feels. There’s no magic telling him she belongs with him, no supernatural certainty promising she won’t disappear again. If Maddie wants a second chance with the man she never stopped loving, she’ll have to give him something far harder than a mate bond.
A choice.
As Amber begins to heal, an old neighboring barn becomes a haven for shifters who need somewhere to land, and Willowbrook slowly folds Maddie back into the family she left behind, she begins to discover that staying doesn’t mean giving up the ability to leave.
It means believing there will be somewhere worth coming back to.
But someone connected to the trafficking network has started watching Willowbrook, and this time Maddie refuses to protect the people she loves by disappearing. Because Dawson may be the only human in a valley full of magic—but the man everyone underestimates might be exactly the one Willowbrook needs.
And the one Maddie is finally ready to choose.
The fourth book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifter series. A sweet-with-heat small-town shifter romance featuring a charming human hero hiding a lonely heart, a horse-shifter heroine who has spent years running, second-chance love, a rescued teenager finding her own place in the herd, found family, an open-door romance, and a magical mountain valley where staying is sometimes the bravest choice of all. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.
Genre: Fantasy
Dawson Reed has spent most of his life being the easy one. The man with the joke ready, the truck everyone borrows, and a place at every table in Willowbrook. He’s human in a family filled with horse shifters, gifted women, and enough magic to make an ordinary man wonder sometimes exactly where he fits.
He knows one thing for certain.
Eight years ago, Maddie Cole broke his heart.
He never expected to see her coming up the Willowbrook road again.
Maddie has spent those eight years helping endangered shifters disappear before the wrong people can find them. She learned early that anyone she loves can become leverage, so when a trafficker showed her a photograph of Dawson, she did the only thing she knew how to do.
She ran.
Now she’s back with Amber, a frightened teenage horse shifter who needs somewhere safe to land, and Maddie has every intention of leaving again as soon as the danger passes.
Willowbrook has other ideas.
The valley recognizes Maddie almost immediately. So does the horse inside her. And when Dawson touches her in shifted form, Maddie finally understands the connection she refused to name eight years ago.
Dawson is her mate.
There’s only one problem.
He’s human.
He can’t feel the bond she feels. There’s no magic telling him she belongs with him, no supernatural certainty promising she won’t disappear again. If Maddie wants a second chance with the man she never stopped loving, she’ll have to give him something far harder than a mate bond.
A choice.
As Amber begins to heal, an old neighboring barn becomes a haven for shifters who need somewhere to land, and Willowbrook slowly folds Maddie back into the family she left behind, she begins to discover that staying doesn’t mean giving up the ability to leave.
It means believing there will be somewhere worth coming back to.
But someone connected to the trafficking network has started watching Willowbrook, and this time Maddie refuses to protect the people she loves by disappearing. Because Dawson may be the only human in a valley full of magic—but the man everyone underestimates might be exactly the one Willowbrook needs.
And the one Maddie is finally ready to choose.
The fourth book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifter series. A sweet-with-heat small-town shifter romance featuring a charming human hero hiding a lonely heart, a horse-shifter heroine who has spent years running, second-chance love, a rescued teenager finding her own place in the herd, found family, an open-door romance, and a magical mountain valley where staying is sometimes the bravest choice of all. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.
Genre: Fantasy