Arriving to a wall of canceled flights home from her friend’s wedding, Lily rents a car to make it back before the winter solstice. But as the snow begins to fall, she uses a navigation spell to divine a faster way, taking her on a desolate mountain road and away from the highway. A glance away from the road proves to be a mistake as she comes upon a downed tree. Unable to stop fast enough, she hits it with her car and ends up in a ditch. As the snow piles up, she doesn’t know if she will make it home. Using your magic to keep warm only goes so far when it depletes your energy, and she soon falls asleep, hoping someone might find her before she freezes to death.
Elsewhere, Cade, a werewolf, anxiously awaits his mate’s arrival home after a week away for work. Having already cleaned the cabin from top to bottom, he decides to go for a run in the snow to take the edge off. On his run, he comes across a downed tree and a crashed car with a pretty woman inside, seemingly dead. Breaking into the car and finding she still had a pulse, he gets the woman out and takes her back to his cabin to warm her up and hopefully save her.
Ending his week away from his mate, Thane, a demon, returns home to find Cade making dinner. In the middle of their passionate greeting, Thane sees a witch coming aggressively at him and his mate. Thane attacks the witch, pinning her to the wall by the throat and threatening to devour her heart.
While Cade quickly reassures him that Lily isn’t a threat, as Cade and her develop a rapport, Thane’s not so sure. Things take a turn when Cade scents Lily’s ovulation, and it drives him to want her. Confessing his feelings to Thane only makes things worse. Thane is quick to assert his claim on his mate and remind Lily she has no place there with them. But when Cade discovers his mate is just as attracted to the witch—despite Thane’s irritation over her presence in their home—things get complex.
As things turn physical between the three of them, mixed feelings result. Cade, isolated in a mountain cabin, comes to realize just how lonely he’s been with Thane away so often and doesn’t necessarily want Lily to leave once the snowstorm ends. Thane begins to recognize cracks in his own relationship as he grows to care for Lily. Meanwhile, Lily deals with her developing feelings for the pair of mates and believes that Cade and Thane have too much love in their hearts for each other to have room for her, too.
With the end of the snowstorm, will Lily return home for good, or will she stay in the one place where she finally feels like she belongs?
Tropes: werewolf x demon x witch, forced proximity/snowed in, enemies to lovers, jealous mate, finding where you belong, golden retriever x black cat x stray black cat, breeding, MMF
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Content Warnings
Car Accident/Facing Mortality- The FMC crashes her car during a snowstorm. She faces the possibility of freezing to death and reflects on her own mortality.
D/s Dynamic- When the trio begins to get physical, they do so without clear rules or definitions. The two MMCs have an established relationship and do have their own rules in place, but the FMC isn’t aware of them. It becomes an issue where they need to talk about expectations. The demon MMC is resistant to doing aftercare at first, directing the werewolf MMC to take care of the witch FMC. Sex based punishments for not following rules are used, including: clothing being withheld for twenty-four hours and not being allowed to swallow while mouth is used for pleasure.
Death of Family Member- The werewolf MMC’s grandfather dies. Historical, off-page.
Shunning from Community- There is some discussion about the werewolf MMC being shunned and exiled from his pack for freeing the demon MMC.
Enslavement- The demon MMC was kept bound to the pack of the werewolf MMC, and a witch before that, for nearly a century. The werewolf MMC doesn’t bind him to himself and frees the demon.
Exhibitionism- The demon MMC orally pleasures the werewolf MMC in the middle of the floor while Lily watches, without the werewolf’s knowledge.
Violence and Threats on Life- The demon MMC attacks the witch FMC because he perceives her as a threat. He slams her against the wall multiple times and kicks her onto her back as she tries to crawl away. As he continues to see her as a potential enemy, he makes threats on her life, often when he thinks she may do something to harm him or his mate.
Degradation- The demon MMC frequently uses degrading words and commands.
Unhealthy Relationship Habits- Demon MMC has jealous tendencies due to his insecurity in the relationship. Demon MMC walks out on werewolf MMC in the middle of an argument, going somewhere he can’t follow.
Breeding Urge- The werewolf MMC can scent that the witch FMC is ovulating, and it drives his urge to breed her.
Explicit Sex & Monsterfucking- The demon MMC can shapeshift his body. The werewolf MMC has a knot. Both of the MMCs have fast or no refractory periods.
Shonna Preston 