chymerra
Written on Jan 8, 2017
Donna Mechka is working the front desk at the Wondernasium Hotel when this totally hot firefighter walks in and tells her that he needs to do an annual inspection. She tries to put him off, explaining that they are short-staffed due to the flu and a bellhop who decided to join a motorcycle club. He checks into the hotel and, when Donna is distracted, he decides to go check things out….by himself.
Which ends up to be not such a smart thing. In his snooping, he opens a door called the electrical room and finds an enormous ball of light. And what does he think? He thinks that the hotel is harbouring a nuclear bomb and calls his former Chief in for back up.
As he is doing that, Donna is sitting at the bar with Lola, having a drink, discussing Dean and wondering why their regular inspector sent a human. As Lola explains that Ben, the owner, has a fail safe in place for events such as this, Dean shows up. Donna agrees to show him around, not knowing that he has snooped and he has seen the enormous ball of light in the basement….which he thinks is a bomb.
As he is telling her all of that, a fire alarm goes off. They get to the burning room and Donna says that she can recruit a guest to help with the fire. She orders Dean to get everyone out but before he could do that, they hear a woman screaming for help.
In the room, there are two people, a woman and a man. The man is clearly incapacitated with the woman trying with all of her might to help him. Donna makes a decision to get a hydra to help suck out the oxygen in the air. Dean, of course, is a little confused. It was at this point that the man passes out and Dean makes the startling realization that Moe is very, very heavy. Heavy enough that he can’t life him up.
It is at that point that Donna reveals that Moe is a yeti and that the hotel is not what he thinks it should be. The crane he saw in the doorway of the hotel room ends up being am 8 foot tall lizard with around 50 heads. That he saw witches pushing cauldrons in the hallway, that the woman with Moe was a pixie and that Moe…well he was a yeti. He also realized that the nuclear weapon he thought he saw was actually magic.
But it was when Donna shifted into a bear that his mind was blown. After Moe came too and walked away with his pixie girlfriend, Donna and Dean were alone in her office. After she gets dressed, Dean demands answers. Donna counters with a game of Five Card Stud. As they play, and she answers his questions, it turns into strip Five Card Stud and that gets interrupted by his ex chief, Brody….who he had called in to help.
What will happen? Will Donna and Dean finally have sex? Will they be able stall Brody? What. Will. Happen???
Want to know all that? Well, read the book.
I thought that this was a great book to wrap up the Bear Shifter Billionaire series. What better than with a hunky firefighter and a bear shifter?
Dean did bother me a bit. Normally, I like it when my hero is a bit grumpy but he had a huge chip on his shoulder and he was sneaky. Very sneaky to go off on his own instead of waiting for Donna to go with him.
I did like Donna. She was dealing with a very bad situation and took charge like a boss.
I had to laugh when Dean found the magic snowflake in the basement and thought it was a nuclear bomb. But, considering at that point he had no knowledge of anything magical, I would have assumed the same thing.
I thought Dean and Donna were a cute couple and loved the when they played strip Five Card Stud. I never thought of Five Card Stud as a game for stripping but thinking about it, it could be.
The end of the book was very cute and very….well read the book