Reviewed by True
TITLE: His Mate by Defiance
SERIES: Lunetti Pack #4
AUTHOR: Mel Aitchess
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 254 pages
RELEASE DATE: March 11, 2026
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“For you? I will take it all. All your pain. All your desire. Everything. It’s all mine.”
Rafe is done giving Adri space. For thirteen years, he’s waited for his jaguar shifter mate to be ready to acknowledge what’s between them. Thirteen years of tracking the pack’s fighting ring and racing to respond whenever they need a doctor. The night he turns up to find Adri brutalised by a feral shifter in the ring, he knows he’ll never let him go again. Especially when shifters start going missing.
Adri told the doc he didn’t need saving over a decade ago, and nothing’s changed since. The last thing he needs is Rafe’s overbearing protectiveness when he’s trying to save his friends from a new unsanctioned fighting ring and whatever bioweapon is at play. Waking up in Rafe’s bed wasn’t in the plan. As soon as he’s healed, Adri’s out of there.
His Mate by Defiance is an MM paranormal romance with a bite. It features age gap, fated mates, hurt/comfort, and ridged and knotting fun.
REVIEW:
This is such a wonderful series!
Rafe is a wolf shifter and recognises Adri as his mate. Adri is a jaguar shifter and doesn’t have that strong instinct, so Rafe is just the older doc who puts him together after another cage fight. Rafe wants him to stop the fights, Adri doesn’t need to be saved, he’s way too independent.
Adri made it clear: just a one-night stand, and then Rafe has to return to be his doc.
Adri was kidnapped and trafficked by the Cruor Coven at eighteen, and forced into cage fighting. All the money he earned from fighting he poured into paying off the debts of his fellow fighters. He needs to protect these fighters
It goes on for thirteen years, and Rafe as patient as he is, has had enough of this situation. Marco, the Lunetti pack alpha, took over the fight scenes and after Adri was badly hurt, Rafe wanted to take over the reins. Ha! As if Adri would let him!
Rafe is super protective of his mate. Adri was unaware of the mating thing for all these years. Adri still won’t let Rafe fuss over him and refuses to bond.
There are threats, and shifters are missing, I won’t spoil, but it’s all greatly put together!
Another wonderful addition to this series. It’s widely and enticingly written, well developed, with wonderful characters and a great plot.
Can’t wait for Alpha Marco’s story!!
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