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    Her Big Shifter: Big Easy Shifters, #5
    Her Big Shifter: Big Easy Shifters, #5
    Her Big Shifter: Big Easy Shifters, #5
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    Her Big Shifter: Big Easy Shifters, #5

    By Abby Knox

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    The patriarch of the most powerful shifter clan in New Orleans has a secret, all contained in a pretty, pink box hidden away in the closet.

     

    When Lionel and Betsy DuChamp's daughter uncovers their hushed-up origins of how her parents met, the reading is intriguing, scandalous and heart-pounding stuff. What's more, Rosemary discovers much about why her father behaves the way he does...the source of all of Rosemary and Ash's wedding drama.

     

    Read on to uncover the sweet, sexy conclusion to the Big Easy Shifters series with this age-gap love story told in found letters.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor Abby Knox, LLC
    Release dateOct 8, 2022
    ISBN9798215486504
    Her Big Shifter: Big Easy Shifters, #5
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    Abby Knox

    Abby Knox writes feel-good, high-heat romance that she herself would want to read. Readers have described her stories as quirky, sexy, adorable, and hilarious. All of that adds up to Abby’s overall goal in life: to be kind and to have fun! Abby’s favorite tropes include: Forced proximity, opposites attract, grumpy/sunshine, age gap, boss/employee, fated mates/insta-love, and more. Abby is heavily influenced by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, and LOST. But don't worry, she won’t ever make you suffer like Luke & Lorelai. If any or all of that connects with you, then you came to the right place.

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      Her Big Shifter - Abby Knox

      CHAPTER ONE

      Rosemary needed the juicy details, and nothing was going to stop her from digging them up.

      Spying the box nestled in the back corner of the senior DuChamps’ dressing room closet, Rosemary knew she'd hit pay dirt.

      If the guests expected her to deliver a speech about her parents, Betsy and Lionel DuChamp, Rosemary needed a fresh story. Always the epic stonewallers, Betsy and Lionel themselves were no help.

      And even if her parents were helpful enough to reveal even a single anecdote from their past, Rosemary had no doubt her parents would leave out the best parts. They simply didn’t talk about how they met, always skirting the subject.

      But Rosemary could not be stopped. Not in love, and not in life in general.

      Setting aside a lockbox and a rack of shoes from the 1980s, Rosemary took a closer look at the container that was decoupaged with flowers, lace, and old-fashioned Valentines. It looked like something a much younger, more carefree Betsy would have crafted for herself. There was a decade of dust over some words written on a label on the side. Rosemary rubbed away the dust, revealing the word letters.

      Eureka, baby! she called to her husband, Ash, who was wrangling small children in the main bedroom. I have found it.

      Don’t take anything too personal, baby.

      With the box gripped under one arm, Rosemary stomped out into the bedroom that adjoined the dressing room and placed the other hand on her hip. She shot a sassy look at her husband and said, What on earth do you think we are doing here, Ashton? Looking for life insurance paperwork?

      Ash bounced the little one on his knee and looked up at his wife pleadingly. Baby, I don’t want to know anything about Betsy and Lionel’s super-personal history. Forgive me, but I ain’t the biggest fan of your daddy. And I have too much respect for your mama.

      That’s because you’re a good Southern boy. Now I’m just gonna open this box and make sure it has what I’m looking for, and then we can go pay our proper respects—fully armed with some great stories.

      Ash grumbled. The sooner, the better. Being in Lionel’s bedroom is creepy enough.

      Rosemary muttered back at her husband as she set the box down on the bed and gently eased off the lid. You could have taken the kids down to the playroom while you waited.

      Too busy having her mind blown by what was in the box, Rosemary barely registered his reply about the little ones going through a phase fraught with tantrums every time their mother was out of sight.

      She pulled out the first item, a small, yellowed envelope the size of a thank you note. On the front was the word Betsy, but there was no stamp and no address. The writing was her father’s unmistakable penmanship.

      Whoop! Here. We. Go.

      Dear Betsy,

      I am sorry you had to see that. I’m sorry I scared you with the way I behaved. That was wrong.

      You have to understand that you are the first and only person to whom I have ever admitted wrongdoing. Here’s why I did what I did: Jimmy Boudreaux can’t have what’s rightfully mine. He simply cannot have you. You and I are meant to be together. And not in the way you think. Someday I’ll explain what I mean.

      My only regret besides you seeing me flatten a student out like that on the dance floor is that I didn’t pick you up and carry you off to be my bride. I would have, if the other chaperones didn’t expel me from the building.

      You will find, in time, I can be as gentle as a kitten. But only with you. Anyone else who tries to take what’s mine will know the consequences of tangling with a predator.

      Your protector,

      Lionel DuChamp

      Rosemary looked up from the letter and gaped at her husband.

      What? Ash asked.

      I tell you what, this is the dirtiest of pay dirt, and I am here for it.

      Ash rolled to his side and struggled to stand up, with a toddler attached to his leg. "Great,

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