Elva Birch
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Choose Your Own Hug!Times are strange and things are stressful, and the safest thing in the world, a hug, has become something fraught with risk.Project: Hug was first released at Elva Birch's webpage as a branching narrative escape, each choice leading the reader to a unique flash fiction hug. The original version is still available at her webpage, but the project has been expanded here with more possible outcomes and put into a more convenient form...
2) Better Half
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Meghan has spent half her life fleeing her past.After losing her best friend and canine companion, Meghan finds a wolf in the Alaskan wilderness who turns into a man claiming they are meant for each other. But Meghan has been burned by love before, and her past is still hunting her.Better Half is a hot, heart-wrenching-and sometimes hilarious-tale of healing and finding a happy-ever-after, perfect for a short, satisfying fast read.Originally printed...
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There's a dragon in the garden. Trudy and Rikard have their quiet retirement all planned out-a plan which doesn't include the gorgeous naked dragon shifter who crash-lands in their garden...or the temptation he brings to their happy relationship. Danyen didn't mean to be trouble to the kind-hearted couple who rescued him from the destruction of their peas, but his alien species has very specific needs that only bound mates can satisfy. He only intends...
4) Her Finister
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Love endures...even in the cold space between starsAn artificial intelligence puzzles over the concept of love and tears, but when her Finister-a curious and rare alien creature-is taken from her, she sacrifices everything to find him again in a journey that spans galaxies and years and many shapes in a tale of endurance and loyalty. "Her Finister" is a sweet science fiction retelling of a Russian fairy tale, "The Dazzling Falcon Finister."This lyrical...
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Prompted by readers, these twelve lyrical tales of magic and romance range from one hundred to one thousand words apiece, and from sweet to sizzling. They are elegantly crafted, bite-sized romantic romps, varying from humorous to heartbreaking. Shifters, fae, witches, and mortals find happiness and hope in unexpected places and forms. PROMPTED is a sweet, satisfying quick read, not always straight, but always straight-up fun.
6) Breakup
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A trapper in Alaska knows that spring will draw away the otter shifter who has been living with him all winter in his isolated cabin. A short, bittersweet story with a hint of heat. Previously published in Shape Shifters Vol 1 (now out of print).* * *Birch Hearts is a collection of short stories and novellas by Elva Birch, full of romance, adventure, and magic.Shifters, witches, spaceships, and swords...these stories aren't always straight, but they...
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A love that breaks all the rules Junior Technician Tanadara knows she isn't supposed to feed destructive pest animals and tame them to obey her whispered commands. She also isn't supposed to have a crush on her gorgeous alien supervisor, Samath…and he's not supposed to be telepathic. What starts as a tentative truce soon blooms into something deeper and more dangerous. When her furry friends are scheduled for extermination, does Tanadara have any...
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She's afraid of everything. He's afraid she'll make him feel again...
Deer shifter Mary may be afraid of snakes, planes, tropical diseases, and strange people, but when fate hands her a solo vacation at the luxurious, all-inclusive Shifting Sands Resort, she's determined to enjoy herself. She isn't prepared to meet her true mate - or to find out he doesn't want her.
Neal was an elite member of the military before he was captured and tortured in...
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Escape to a tropical holiday vacation at a shifters-only resort where the gift under the tree is destiny.
In A Christmoose Story, hockey player Lars is desperate to impress the shy, bookish caribou shifter Julie. Desperate enough to lie and say that he's a bear shifter, because who could ever love a big, goofy moose?
In A Recipe for Happiness, Royal Guard Chet is expecting a dull assignment guarding a spoiled princess. Instead, he meets his...
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She can bring music to his silent heart. He can make her sing.
Irish elk shifter Conall Wright loved Christmas… when he could still hear the music that brought him joy and fame. Then a fateful car accident stripped him of his hearing and brought his classical music career to a halt. Now, he's looking for a place for the holiday that isn't full of silver bells and singing Santas to remind him of everything he's lost, and Shifting Sands Resort...
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Adventure, romance, and laughter: escape to Shifting Sands Resort!
Set at a tropical luxury resort for shifters only, this quirky, fan-favorite series is a romance thrill ride with humor and heart. Each book weaves into a compelling mystery about the island and the secrets that it's hiding...
An undercover spy, a wounded warrior, and a bartender wearing a cowboy hat all find their fated mates in these three standalone novels of healing and finding...
12) Thawing His Hart
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Escape to a resort for shifters only with a cozy holiday mystery that will melt your heart!
A rare white hart shifter who was imprisoned in a cruel shifter zoo, Robert returns to the rebuilt Shifting Sands Resort to prove that he's put his demons to rest and his memories of captivity behind him...only to meet a mate who doesn't recognize him. Is he more broken then he knows?
Felicity's first week serving meals at the luxury tropical resort starts...
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He's looking for forgiveness.
She's looking for a fighting chance.
Graham Long left his career-and his real name-behind to make a fresh start for himself at Shifting Sands. He's done with dueling, and wants nothing more than to quietly raise his strawberries and tend the lawns at the tropical shifters-only resort.
A fight is the last thing he wants when his lion insists that his friend's bear shifter bridesmaid is his destined mate.
But...
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He ain't no one's idea of a true mate.
Panther shifter Wrench hasn't got the first frickin' clue about poems and flowers and all that crap. But he's gonna learn, or die trying. He ain't giving up on the best thing to ever happen to him. Lucky he's got new friends at Shifting Sands Resort to teach him how to woo a lady right…
Yoga instructor Lydia and her inner black swan always knew she'd meet her one true mate, but she never imagined a tattooed,...
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Her marriage of convenience isn't as convenient as she hoped...
Snow leopard shifter and heiress Darla Grant thought that marrying her best friend would be the solution to all of her problems: it would shelter her from a persistent and unwelcome suitor, unlock her inheritance to save the bankrupt shifter retirement home where she volunteers, and free her from her controlling society mother. Then she meets her fated mate at the tropical luxury resort...
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All the questions are answered.
All the secrets are revealed.
And all hell breaks loose.
Scarlet Stanson, the owner of Shifting Sands Resort, has spent decades guarding her secrets… and her heart. Now both are at stake when she discovers that her resort isn't the safe place she intended it to be...and that the arrogant lawyer she's been battling over the resort lease isn't the enemy she thought he was.
Dragon shifter Mal Moore has trained...
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He's on a mission to find missing shifters. She's about to become one of them.
Abandoned as a baby, Amber has never known another shifter like herself. She came to Shifting Sands Resort hoping for answers about her past, but only finds questions about her future. She doesn't understand the connection she has with the handsome stranger at the bar, but she knows that his arms feel more like home than anywhere she's ever been.
Tony, secret agent and...