Found by the Horse Shifter
(2026)(The fifth book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifters series)
A novel by Ella Tucker
He fought too hard for his freedom to ever belong to anyone again. Then fate gave him someone worth staying for.
Reid Kessler knows how to leave.
He keeps one suitcase packed, his truck ready, and never lets himself get too comfortable anywhere. Years ago, Reid escaped a trafficking network that treated horse shifters like property, and he made himself a promise afterward.
No cages.
No chains.
And no one would ever claim him again.
Willowbrook was only supposed to be another stop.
Then he walks into Dog-Eared Books & Coffee and meets Paige Sutton.
Paige has spent her whole life in Willowbrook. She owns the bookstore, knows half the town’s secrets, and has a second floor she’s been promising herself she’ll renovate for years. She likes her life exactly as it is.
At least, that’s what she keeps telling herself.
Then Reid starts showing up for coffee.
The attraction between them is impossible to ignore, but Reid soon realizes it’s more than chemistry.
Paige is his mate.
For another horse shifter, that discovery might feel like a gift.
For Reid, it feels dangerously close to the one thing he swore he would never be again.
Claimed.
Except Paige doesn’t want a bond to decide for them. She doesn’t want fate to make Reid hers.
She wants him to choose.
As Willowbrook’s new Safe Placement Network begins helping shifters escape the same world Reid survived, a clue from his past points toward someone who never made it out. Following it means remembering things Reid has spent years trying to forget—and drawing the attention of a trafficking network that has finally started looking back.
This time, running would be easier.
But Reid isn’t alone anymore.
And somewhere between Paige’s bookstore, a feed store that has begun to feel suspiciously like his, and a valley full of people who keep making room for him without asking him to surrender a single piece of himself, Reid begins to understand something he never expected.
There’s a difference between being trapped somewhere...
and choosing to stay.
The fifth book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifter series. A sweet-with-heat small-town shifter romance featuring a fiercely independent horse-shifter hero learning that love isn’t a cage, a bookstore-owning heroine who refuses to let fate make their choices for them, fated mates, forced proximity to one very persistent small town, rescued shifters finding safety, found family, an open-door romance, and a hidden mountain valley where being found might finally mean finding your way home. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Reid Kessler knows how to leave.
He keeps one suitcase packed, his truck ready, and never lets himself get too comfortable anywhere. Years ago, Reid escaped a trafficking network that treated horse shifters like property, and he made himself a promise afterward.
No cages.
No chains.
And no one would ever claim him again.
Willowbrook was only supposed to be another stop.
Then he walks into Dog-Eared Books & Coffee and meets Paige Sutton.
Paige has spent her whole life in Willowbrook. She owns the bookstore, knows half the town’s secrets, and has a second floor she’s been promising herself she’ll renovate for years. She likes her life exactly as it is.
At least, that’s what she keeps telling herself.
Then Reid starts showing up for coffee.
The attraction between them is impossible to ignore, but Reid soon realizes it’s more than chemistry.
Paige is his mate.
For another horse shifter, that discovery might feel like a gift.
For Reid, it feels dangerously close to the one thing he swore he would never be again.
Claimed.
Except Paige doesn’t want a bond to decide for them. She doesn’t want fate to make Reid hers.
She wants him to choose.
As Willowbrook’s new Safe Placement Network begins helping shifters escape the same world Reid survived, a clue from his past points toward someone who never made it out. Following it means remembering things Reid has spent years trying to forget—and drawing the attention of a trafficking network that has finally started looking back.
This time, running would be easier.
But Reid isn’t alone anymore.
And somewhere between Paige’s bookstore, a feed store that has begun to feel suspiciously like his, and a valley full of people who keep making room for him without asking him to surrender a single piece of himself, Reid begins to understand something he never expected.
There’s a difference between being trapped somewhere...
and choosing to stay.
The fifth book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifter series. A sweet-with-heat small-town shifter romance featuring a fiercely independent horse-shifter hero learning that love isn’t a cage, a bookstore-owning heroine who refuses to let fate make their choices for them, fated mates, forced proximity to one very persistent small town, rescued shifters finding safety, found family, an open-door romance, and a hidden mountain valley where being found might finally mean finding your way home. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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