I swear I didn't mean to bind my secret high school crush to me, it just happened.

I made a promise to my family that there would be no spell casting while they were away. It was well known in the Turner household that my spells tended to go a bit, shall we say, wonky. Like turning my ex-boyfriend into a frog when I'd been trying to conjure breakfast in bed. Complete accident, though my sister claimed he was better in frog form. She wasn't wrong. So, for the next two weeks I would look after our family store, hang out with my cat, Hex, and enjoy having the house to myself for once. Peace and quiet and no hinky spell work business.

Then he blew into my store–literally. Michael Endicott the third. Or fourth? Maybe fifth? It didn't matter. What did matter was that I was staring at my high school crush–who clearly did not remember me. Unfortunately, he still made me forget how to form words into a complete sentence. Seems a vengeful one-night stand had placed a bad luck spell on Michael, and he needed help. My help. I mean, what could go wrong? It was just an easy reversal spell. No problem. Only somehow instead of reversing the spell, I managed to bind us together.

Grayson “Becks” Beckett

Settling down and starting a family with a mate was never something I longed for. Instead, I traveled the world working my government job, living for the next adventure. When that time came to an end, I was left adrift. Hooking up with a beautiful omega I met on a kink app was just what I needed to get out of the funk I was in. No names, no expectations. Just some no strings fun and then we'd both go our separate ways.

I never expected my hook-up to turn out to be my fated mate. Instead of accepting fate, I ignored it and hightailed it out of there. I had no intention of being tied down. Until the day I came face to face with my very pregnant fated mate, who was not at all happy to see me.

Wyatt Cooper

Sweet Alps was going to be my new beginning. No more stuffy academia, no more boring projects. Finally, I would be able to do what I enjoyed most, working with children. Buying the Little Cubs Daycare would be the beginning of my new life and freedom.

Imagine my surprise when I got pulled over and the sheriff turned out to be my sexy, nameless app hookup from months before. He wasn't supposed to be here in my new town. He definitely wasn't supposed to be delivering my baby on the side of the road, spouting nonsense about us being fated mates.

My anger at seeing him again only cemented my belief that mates were a myth. I might have been na?ve enough to not realize what that electric shock between us had meant, but he sure as hell had. Without a word, he left me with nothing but the memories of our night together and a surprise baby as a bonus.

Lachlan Sinclair

Clashing with a smart-mouthed, sarcastic omega was the cherry on top of my already bad day. Getting tossed out of my favorite place for sweet treats was not how I'd planned to start my morning.

I'd always played by the rules and done what was expected of me. My whole life, I'd known what I'd wanted in my mate. Until he was standing in front of me, nothing like I'd expected him to be, sassing me and ordering me about. The opposite of everything I'd thought I'd ever want.

But now he was all I did want. I just had to convince him of that.

Quinn Rafferty

When a huge alpha barged his way to the front of the line in my bakery, it was anything but a meet-cute. My sassy mouth promptly told him exactly where he could take his perfectly formed behind. Right back out the door he'd just come in and don't come back, thank you very much.

Then our hands touched, and sparks of electricity shot between us, and my soul screamed Mate.

He was big and sexy and growly, and smelled like every wishful dream I'd ever had, and forgotten. Making me want things I'd never wanted before. Making me want to run from him as fast as my legs could carry me. Secretly, hoping he would chase me.

His Sassy Omega is the first book in the Sweet Alps Mates series but can be read as a standalone, with no cliffhangers and a HEA. It contains opposites attract, age gap, shifters, knotting, and mpreg.

**Trigger warning: There is a situation where terminating a pregnancy is discussed between the MC's, but it is only a discussion. If this could trigger you in any way, please skip that chapter. This book also deals with pregnancy complications that may be triggering for some readers. Please heed the trigger warnings. This book does contain a HEA.

Shay Pierce

How could I love my fated mate when I couldn't love myself?

Escaping with my young son from an abusive relationship, I had one plan to keep my son and I safe. Getting to the safety of my estranged brother and mending our rift. I never imagined I would find my fated mate at the worst possible time in my life. My priorities had to be rebuilding my life, breaking the mate bond that had been an epic mistake, keeping my son safe, and putting all my broken pieces back together. Easier said than done. My life was a train wreck and dragging Bennett into my mess wasn't fair to either of us. I was barely hanging on, and I knew I couldn't be the Alpha he deserved. So, I had to let him go.

Bennett Maxwell

They say you find love in the most unexpected places.

Finding my fated mate in the bruised and battered Alpha lying in the Emergency Room wasn't the stuff my dreams were made of. But one look into Shay's haunted eyes and I knew he and his adorable son were my future. Giving him the space he asked for was the hardest thing I had ever done, especially with him being my new next-door neighbor. I promised to give him the time he needed to heal, even if it meant keeping my pregnancy from him. But when his ex finds him, I'll fight for what is mine.