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Briar Boleyn
The Fake Mate
by Lana Ferguson
About this book
Two wolf shifters agree to be fake mates but unexpectedly find something real in this steamy paranormal romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson.
Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail—she hasn’t had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother’s obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she’s met someone. That is, until she blurts out the name of the first man she sees and the last man she would ever date: Noah Taylor, the big bad wolf of Denver General.
Noah Taylor, interventional cardiologist and all around grump, has spent his entire life hiding what he is. With outdated stigmas surrounding unmated alphas that have people wondering if they still howl at the moon, Noah has been careful to keep his designation under wraps. It’s worked for years, until an anonymous tip has everything coming to light. Noah is left with two options: come clean to the board and risk his career—or find himself a mate. The chatty, overly friendly ER doctor asking him to be her fake boyfriend on the same day he’s called to meet the board has to be kismet, right?
Mackenzie will keep her grandmother off her back, and Noah will get a chance to prove he can continue to work without a real mate—a mutually beneficial business transaction, they both rationalize. But when the fake-mate act turns into a very real friends-with-benefits arrangement, lines start to blur, and they quickly realize love is a whole different kind of animal.
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
- B0BXKGM9P9
Reader Reviews
March 15, 2024
The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson 3.75/5⭐️ •My Blurb• In an effort to get her matchmaking Gran off her back, Mackenzie lies about dating a coworker. The only problem is the coworker is beyond grumpy and wouldn’t possibly help her out, right? Noah has a problem of his own and when Mackenzie brings him her fake dating proposal, he one ups her by asking her to be his fake mate. There’s no way they will catch feelings until that’s exactly what these opposites do… •My Thoughts• This was cute! I love...
December 7, 2023
Am I… am I into paranormal romance again? This delightfully different, deliciously spicy love story has me questioning everything. I devoured it in one sitting, stayed up WAY too late reading, and am left with the desire to read more of its kind. It’s been years since True Blood and Twilight and all the paranormal things that oversaturated the market back in the day, and it seems like I might finally be able to sit down and enjoy something involving shifters again. I only checked this one out...
April 16, 2024
This read like a first attempt at a Alpha/Omega Romance and it was an average storyline with descriptive spicy scenes involving Alpha/Omega anatomy. I just wish there was more attention paid to the plot because it was not exciting or new. This one really felt like an uneventful romance filled unremarkable characters. I can see where the Alpha/Omega universe was added in to make this story pop, but it just couldn't save this incredibly weak storyline for me. As someone who has been reading...
March 4, 2024
✨ B O O K R E V I E W ✨ The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson R A T I N G: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 “𝐵𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼’𝓂 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊... 𝐼 𝒹𝑜𝓃’𝓉 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝐼’𝓂 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒. 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼’𝓂 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊... 𝐼 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝐼’𝓂 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔.” 🐾S Y N O P S I S 🐾 Mackenzie is a doctor at a hospital in Colorado and also a shifter with a grandmother who wants nothing more than to see her mated. In an attempt...
March 4, 2024
](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_avp?ie=UTF8&nodeId=G8UYX7LALQC8V9KA) ✨ B O O K R E V I E W ✨ The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson R A T I N G: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 “𝐵𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼’𝓂 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊... 𝐼 𝒹𝑜𝓃’𝓉 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝐼’𝓂 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒. 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼’𝓂 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊... 𝐼 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝐼’𝓂 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔.” 🐾S Y N O P S I S 🐾 Mackenzie is a doctor at a hospital...
