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Isla A. Mortimer

Hunted, claimed, kept. The world is a dark place. The people can surprise you.

Paranormal RomanceDark Romance

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About the author

Hunted, claimed, kept. The world is a dark place. The people can surprise you.

I love possessive monsters, inconvenient bonds, and the women who stop running. Wolves, demons, vampires — and the women who love them. :D

My main writing is in the Primal x Prey universe, a world where, two hundred years after humans discovered they weren't the top of the food chain, an alchemist creates a drug that causes bonds between supernatural beings and their prey. Currently two complete series and one standalone: Predator x Prey (wolves), Princes x Prey (demons), plus the standalone Chosen Ground. The vampires are next. They're the only ones who remember how the Revelation went down, and they aren't telling. All of the Primal x Prey stories are available now on Kindle Unlimited!

My first serial, Full Moon Breeding Club, is season one of the Shifter Survival Project — werewolves are an endangered species, and the only way they can save themselves is recruiting human mates. It's currently in progress, and will complete next month.

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Forever shelf

Favorite books

  • Ice Planet Barbarians (duh)
  • Bitten (Kelley Armstrong was my first werewolf series and I still love it) All of Scarlett Grove's dragon books, because they're fun.
  • Bonds that Tie, J. Bree. The Angst. The escalating powers. I love it all.
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In the headphones

Writing soundtrack

  • Two Steps from Hell (SO MUCH. It makes drafting feel like every scene's leading to a boss fight)
  • Supernatural fandom playlists because I grew up in fandom and never really left
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Tiny author lore

Things to know

  • Primal x Prey started as "what if Kelley Armstrong's pack politics moved at Scarlett Grove's speed." I've been chasing that ever since.

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Stories by Isla A. Mortimer

The Shifter Survival Plan by Isla A. Mortimer

Paranormal romance

The Shifter Survival Plan

Welcome to the Full Moon Breeding Club. Facing extinction through population decline, shifters have revealed themselves to the human world, seeking mates to enact their Shifter Survival Plan. But the only way to pass on the wolf is through a a virus that requires a perfect, primal storm to take hold: the adrenaline of the chase, and a primal claim — and the wealthiest packs are willing to pay whatever it takes to make it happen. The solution? Highly secure, elite, three-day retreats where pragmatic human volunteers are paid exorbitant sums to step into the ancestral woods as "prey" for feral Alphas. Hadleigh Stafford is completely out of options. Drowning in family debt, she signs a contract that promises one million dollars just for surviving the weekend. A second million if she leaves carrying a shifter's pup. It’s a calculated risk. She just has to survive three nights in the woods. Grant Austen is the reluctant poster boy for the Shifter Survival Project. He expects another agonizing weekend of playing the predator, forcing himself to maintain human restraint while hunting a stranger. But the second Hadleigh walks into the lodge, Grant's dormant wolf wakes up with a single, absolute demand: Mine. When the sun sets and the full moon rises over the Cairnwood estate, the hunt begins. But Grant isn't just looking for a carrier for his pups. He's hunting for his mate.

Read CHAPTER 1 — HADLEIGH

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