Reviewed by Jen
TITLE: Untouchable
SERIES: Creekside Valley
AUTHOR: JT Fader
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 186 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 18, 2025
BLURB:
Some scars are too deep for the eye to see—but not for the heart to feel.
Trauma runs deep in Rory’s bones—deeper than even the powerful bear spirit that stirs beneath his skin. Abused and broken as a child, he’s grown into an omega who trusts no one and recoils from the gentlest touch. Solitude is his armor. Silence, his only companion.
Until Denver walks into his life.
Denver has formed a rare connection with him—he can walk through Rory’s sleeping mind. The first time he slips into Rory’s nightmares by accident, he doesn’t expect to find such raw pain behind the fortress walls. But instead of turning away, he stays … and comforts Rory in the only place he allows anyone close.
Night after night, a fragile bond forms between them in the dreamworld—one that begins to bleed into waking life. But Rory’s past isn’t done with him, and trust is harder to build than bone.
Poignant, powerful, and deeply intimate, Untouchable is a shifter romance about trauma, healing, and the transformative power of connection—both in dreams and in the light of day.
A spin-off from JT Fader’s popular Creekside Township Rivals series. The timeline of Creekside Valley is in line with JT Fader’s Lone Wolf, when the offspring of the characters in Creekside Township Rivals are grown.
REVIEW:
I’m always up for an interesting shifter book and one with some damaged or abused characters finding their happiness after pulling through their struggles is always a bonus. Here, we have Rory who is a bear shifter that was abused since he was 8 by his father and uncle. He escaped and survived on the streets where he met his two best friends, also bear shifters. They saved up money and moved to Creekside to make a new life. Due to his past trauma, Rory has extreme difficulty with anyone touching him, let alone anything intimate. He is growing stronger every day but this is still a big issue for him.
Dakota is an alpha bear shifter who meets Rory and feels an instant connection. When he is able to see Rory through dreams, their bond quickly grows as Dakota helps pull Rory away from the darkness in his nightmares. It is through the dreams that Dakota is able to first gain Rory’s trust and his patience and understanding pays off as they become closer in the living world.
Rory has a lot to face with his past trauma and abuse but Dakota is the perfect mate to help him overcome it all. Dakota never waivers in his commitment to stand by Rory and does everything he can to handle the bad stuff, including the father and uncle.
Rory’s friends are interesting characters as well, and it looks like we will get future books about their stories. I will say that I am generally not a fan of mpreg stories and did not realize this was one until I already accepted the review. However, it really doesn’t come into play until the end and even then isn’t very detailed. That is to say that I did not mind it much in this story and won’t let it prevent me from enjoying the rest of the stories in the future. Indeed, I am looking forward to seeing where this story goes and hope we get to see Rory and Dakota again as well.
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