The Fake Mate

　　是狼人、也是醫師，一場假戲真作的浪漫愛情故事
 
　　Mackenzie Carter最近的約會對象，真的糟到不能再糟了。火車模型專家、愛說教的男人、對她的狼尾異常著迷的傢伙⋯⋯這幾個月來，Mackenzie的約會都以失敗收場。才剛結束住院醫師生涯不到一年，祖母就一直催她定下來，簡直快將她逼瘋。為了讓祖母閉上嘴巴，Mackenzie不小心撒了個謊，號稱目前正在和同事交往中。沒想到拷問並沒有就此結束，而此時Mackenzie的死對頭Noah Taylor推開休息室的大門，情急之下，她聽到自己說出：「我的男友叫Noah。」
 
　　總是臭著一張臉的Noah Taylor是丹佛醫院的心臟內科權威，因為社會對單身狼人抱有許多過時誤解，他一直都努力隱藏自己的真實身份，然而最近這個祕密即將守不住了。眼看他多年來辛苦建立的一切即將瓦解，Noah必須向董事會坦承真相、或是趕快找個伴侶。正好，這位聒噪的急診醫師竟然跑來拜託他假扮男友…這豈不是個一舉兩得的好辦法嗎？
 
　　就這樣，Mackenzie和Noah為了彼此的利益展開「交往」，不過當兩個狼人之間的關係升溫，界線也開始模糊…原來愛情才是天下最難駕馭的動物。(文／博客來外文館)

Two wolf shifters agree to be fake mates but unexpectedly find something real in this steamy paranormal romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson.

Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail--she hasn’t had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother’s obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she’s met someone. That is, until she blurts out the name of the first man she sees and the last man she would ever date: Noah Taylor, the big bad wolf of Denver General.

Noah Taylor, interventional cardiologist and all around grump, has spent his entire life hiding what he is. With outdated stigmas surrounding unmated alphas that have people wondering if they still howl at the moon, Noah has been careful to keep his designation under wraps. It’s worked for years, until an anonymous tip has everything coming to light. Noah is left with two options: come clean to the board and risk his career--or find himself a mate. The chatty, overly friendly ER doctor asking him to be her fake boyfriend on the same day he’s called to meet the board has to be kismet, right?

Mackenzie will keep her grandmother off her back, and Noah will get a chance to prove he can continue to work without a real mate--a mutually beneficial business transaction, they both rationalize. But when the fake-mate act turns into a very real friends-with-benefits arrangement, lines start to blur, and they quickly realize love is a whole different kind of animal.

Lana Ferguson is a sex-positive nerd whose works never shy from spice or sass. A faded Fabio book cover found its way into her hands at fifteen, and she’s never been the same since. When she isn’t writing, you can find her randomly singing show tunes, arguing over which Batman is superior, and subjecting her friends to the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings. Lana lives mostly in her own head but can sometimes be found chasing her corgi through the coppice of the great American outdoors.