Rating: 4.5🌈
Of the three series in Arden Steele’s connected universe, I find Hunter’s Hollow to be the most interesting. The characters have complex histories, and often dangerous pasts that follow them into their new lives here.
Much like the original series, each has a fated mate, instant connection relationship story between the two main characters. What I appreciated here was that there wasn’t an instant love or in heat sort of connection. More an acknowledgment of its existence and let’s see what happens type of thing. A very different kind of story from previous books and it makes sense given the dramatic circumstances under which both Sammy and Dominic Rivas are operating. Each has their own individual investigations that need to be conducted, highly dangerous ones with short time frames.
The suspense and emotional moments are well written and the drama is ramped up to new levels as each character becomes more invested in each other’s lives and the outcome of their quests.
I think this is one of the best of the series. A excellent story and another recommendation.
Cover Art by Poisoned Ink Studios
Another recommendation!
Check out the full list of same universe connected/crossover series and stories below.
Blackhaven Manor (14 book series):
- Purrfect Harmony #1
- Night and Fae #2
- Dragon It Out #3
- Grin and Bear It #4
- Pixie Little Liar #5
- Dead Over Heals #6
- Silent Knight #7
- Pain in the Ice #8
- Walking a Tight Rope #9
- Royally Flocked #10
- What The Hex? #11
- Dewitched #12
- Draken the Rules #13
- Bitten in Stone #14
Sequel/adjacent series:
Hunter’s Hollow:
- Angels and Anarchy #1
- Beauty and Bad Blood #2
- Curses and Casualties #3
- Devils and Deadly Deals #4
Happily Ever Afterlife (3 book series):
Definitely Dead #1
Dead Ringer #2
Dead to Rights #3
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Blurb
Everyone in Hunters Hollow has a story. Some are running from a past that won’t stay buried. Others are searching for a new beginning. For Sammy Leeds, the truth resides somewhere in between.
Opening a bakery in the bayou was supposed to be the first chapter of his happily ever after, and for a while, it worked. Until a single phone call reminds him that family is complicated and his freedom is only a temporary reprieve.
Maybe trying to start a new life on the smoldering ashes of his old one hadn’t been the best idea.
Dominic Rivas doesn’t make promises, and he damn sure doesn’t make mistakes. Yet the moment Sammy enters his life, he’s suddenly in danger of doing both. Alpha to a pack of hardened outcasts, he’s built a reputation on a foundation of bad ideas, but falling for a changeling with trusting eyes and a sweet smile might be his worst one yet.
Callous. Remorseless. Savage. He knows what people say about him, and frankly, they aren’t wrong. While gentleness and mercy don’t come naturally, things like loyalty and integrity run as deep as his magical roots. Nobody messes with the people he loves and lives to talk about it.
Sammy needed a hero. Instead, he got a wolf with trust issues and violent tendencies.
But with fear mounting and time running out, he’s just desperate enough to make a deal with the devil.
Peccavi Press
Publication date
May 16, 2026
Language
English
Print length
241 pages
Book 4 of 4
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 