Pulling over to the side of the road, she put the car in park and laid her forehead on the steering wheel. If only she had thought of a back-up plan. Reading the directions earlier had made everything seem so simple. What she hadn't accounted for was the low-level fog a few miles back.

Think, Davis, think. She wasn't the head of the Shifter Equality Alliance by luck. Stubbornness was her middle name, and she wasn't about to give up. Especially since her upcoming meeting was important. No, scratch that, the scheduled meeting with the cougar-shifters was goddamn historical.

Kian Murray had invited her to DarkStalker's land through a human acquaintance they shared. Because it was illegal for her, or any human, to be on any shifter's land without the federal government's permission, she'd been given detailed directions to help hide her true destination. Once she reached the final location in the directions, a DarkStalker sentry, named Aidan Scott, would blindfold her and take her the rest of the way.

She'd made it to step number forty-three out of forty-five before the fog had prevented her from finding her next landmark. So close, yet so far.

The number of steps jogged her memory. Raising her head, she then switched on the interior car light and picked up her printed directions. Scanning the page, she reached the end. "Aha. I was right. I'm only a few miles from the final destination. Maybe if I honk my horn and sit here, the cougar-shifters will find me."

Since she was alone on a tiny mountain road, the noise wouldn't attract any humans. Only a fool would try driving these mountains in March with snow still on the ground.

Well, a fool or a woman on a mission. The Shifter Equality Alliance, or SEA, needed this meeting. Without the shifters' help, SEA's push to make shifter-human marriages legal was doomed according to every set of data analyzed in the last few months. Clan DarkStalker was her best chance at making that happen. She needed to make the meeting, at any cost.

Taking a deep breath, she pressed the horn and held it for fifteen seconds before releasing it.

Claire scanned her surroundings, but five minutes later, she was still sitting in her car with no cougar in sight.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. The saying might be childish, but it pretty much described how she'd run her life over the last five years.

Placing her hand on the horn, she geared herself for the noise and pressed down. Rather than make it a straight noise, she beeped the horn to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." Maybe the kids' song would signal she wasn't a threat.

As she waited in silence again, she kept a look out for any cougars. Eventually, they had to find her.

Right?

She refused to think about the alternative.

Resisting the Cougar is now available on all major online retailers.

Books by Jessie Donovan.

Asylums for Magical Threats.

Blaze of Secrets (AMT #1) Frozen Desires (AMT #2).

Shadow of Temptation (AMT #2.5) Flare of Promise (Summer 2015, AMT#3).

Cascade Shifters Convincing the Cougar (CS #0.5).

Reclaiming the Wolf (CS #1).

Cougar's First Christmas (CS #1.5).

Resisting the Cougar (CS #2).

Stonefire Dragons Sacrificed to the Dragon: Boxed Set (Parts #1-4).

Seducing the Dragon: Boxed Set (Parts #1-4) Revealing the Dragons.

Healed by the Dragon: Part One Healed by the Dragon: Part Two Healed by the Dragon: Part Three Healed by the Dragon: Part Four (May 28, 2015).

Healed by the Dragon: Boxed Set (Parts #1-4) Reawakening the Dragon: Part One (July 21, 2015).

Author's Note.

Here we are at the end of another Stonefire Dragons story and it still feels like a dream. I'd like to thank all of my readers for their support and word-of-mouth. Without you, I would still be working an office job and scrambling to find time to write. Thank you!

There are some people I'd like to thank for their help:.

Clarissa Yeo is an amazing cover artist and I'm lucky to have her. She captures my dragon-shifters without even really trying.

Becky Johnson and her team at Hot Tree Editing. She was awesome about my short turnarounds to make my pre-order deadlines. She has also made me a better writer. Thanks, Becky!

Iliana and Donna are my beta-readers and their input has been vital to this series. Part Four in particular was a lot less awesome before Iliana told me it was missing the "Wow Factor". Honesty is a rare thing and I am lucky to have it from both of my betas!

Before I go, if you would like to interact more with me and my fans, you can join my Facebook Fans of Jessie Donovan group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/335945189923923/.

Thanks again for reading and I can't wait to revisit Melanie and Tristan in Revealing the Dragons. Next up is Finn and Arabella's story, Healed by the Dragon, followed by Kai's story (Stonefire's head Protector). I hope you continue to follow the story of Clan Stonefire. You can always drop me a line at: jessiedauthor@gmail.com.

See you around! :).

About the Author.

Jessie Donovan wrote her first story at age five, and after discovering The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey in junior high, she realized people actually wanted to read stories like those floating around inside her head. From there on out, she was determined to tap into her over-active imagination and write a book someday.

After living abroad for five years and earning degrees in Japanese, Anthropology, and Secondary Education, she buckled down and finally wrote her first full-length book. While that story will never see the light of day, it laid the world-building groundwork of what would become her debut paranormal romance, Blaze of Secrets. In late 2014, she officially became a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.

Jessie loves to interact with readers. When not reading a book or traipsing around some foreign country on a shoestring, she can often be found on Facebook either on her Author Page or in her Fan Group.

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