Different Genus (Bad Little Falls Book 1)

Elliot Moss is a sea otter with a PhD, a cross-country move he’s not ready to talk about, and no plan beyond May. Cal Whitmore is a river otter who’s never left Bad Little Falls, knows every rock in his river, and eats dinner at his mother’s table every Sunday.

Elliot wasn’t supposed to stay. Cal wasn’t supposed to care.

Then they both shifted in the same river at dawn, and biology made the decision their brains were still arguing about.

Now there’s a bond neither of them asked for, a heat neither of them can ignore, a town full of nosy shifters who know exactly what happened, and a family of river otters who’ve already set a place for Elliot at the table.

He just has to decide if he’s going to sit down.

(The muffins are warm. The family is loud. The river otter is waiting. It’s not a hard decision. It’s just the scariest one he’s ever made.)

Different Genus is a cozy, high-heat M/M shifter romance with fated mates, small-town meddling, otter taxonomy arguments, and a guaranteed HEA. First in the Bad Little Falls series. Includes a bonus short story.