Settle for Something

Desert Homesteaders, Book 3

By: Susi Hawke

Narrated by: Michael Dean

Carjacked and taken hostage? Just another Friday night for this alpha.

Sweet, bumbling Shane is an alpha who’s been looking for love in all the wrong places. Bad dates and catfishing incidents are the norm in his world. But Shane pushes on, because he knows his fated mate is waiting to be found. And if he doesn’t eventually find his perfect match? Well.... Shane might be willing to settle.

Xavier’s on the run from a rough past. Luckily, he’s a jackrabbit shifter who’s good at getting lost. Not so lucky? He’s also pregnant, and needs a safe place to burrow. He sees his chance in a small Arizona town - by carjacking his own fated mate, and taking him hostage. "Kinda". Is it really kidnapping, if the hostage offers to be taken?

Return to the hills above Cottonwood, Arizona, where every shifter has a bit of special magic, and the pack of homesteaders, preppers, and loners are a lot nosier about each other’s lives than they’d care to admit. Because no matter their differences, pack means family.

This 28k novella is the third in this short-read series, and definitely contains "mpreg". Be prepared for side-splitting laughs, an omega who can talk to animals, and a group of people who know that family always comes first. Also, all the feels you’d expect from a Susi Hawke original.

Possible triggers include the mention of rape in a main character's past, and a resulting pregnancy.

©2021, 2022 Susi Hawke (P)2022 Susi Hawke

Want Drew back….Dean’s weakest performance

I’m normally a huge Dean fan but this is his weakest performance I’ve heard…. Half the characters sound almost the same. Dot sounds almost just like Sandy (Stanford) and Kyle has no Aussie accent at all. Hope if there are anymore in the series Drew comes back. I’ll listen to Dean on other books. Dean wasn’t horrible just wasn’t good either. Story is still as entertaining as the rest. Very funny.

Enjoyable read

For the most part this is a sweet low angst quick read. It cracked me up when Xavier carjacks/kidnaps Shane. How Xavier became pregnant was horrible & his father was a nasty POS. Kind sweet Shane, who has had horrible luck finding love & has always gotten the short end of the stick really steps up to Xavier's father. I would have liked the book to have been longer. I'm glad that Shane finally realized that Xavi was his mate & got their HEA. I loved Henry the gay rooster & all the other animals on Shane's homestead.

Humorous and cute

Although there are some serious parts, I loved the humor and the cuteness of many of the characters. I felt the connection of characters right away with this narrator and loved how it all came together!

Shane and Xavier

Shane wants a mate. He’s had so many bad dates and relationships that he is almost ready to give up. Giving it one more try, he’s meeting a guy at a restaurant only to be carjacked by Xavier, an omega rabbit shifter. Xavier is pregnant and running away from his dad who only wants him to run the circus his dad owns.

After Shane hears about what happened to Xavier he opens his home and his heart to the little shifter rabbit. This was a really sweet story and after listening to it and hearing the friends Shane has I have to go back a head the first two books. I really enjoyed the narrator and giggled out loud and had a smile that I’m sure confused people who were shopping around me as I listened to the book. 5 stars all around!

I received an ARC of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Cute❤️

Sweet cute listen. I loved the charters in this book. OMG I so want a cute sweet bear for myself. The narrator did an awesome job with this story.