Foxy Twinkie!

 One of my Christmas gifts, which I didn't realize was on my Amazon wish list, was Huntsman by Morgan Brice. Which lead to some amusement as I unwrapped a book with a half naked wolf shifter on the cover at a family house.

Anyway, if you've read Morgan Brice's other works, you have a general idea of what you're going to get here.

We open on Liam, a Fox Shifter (here defined as something akin to a werefox, although the animal side is more or less like a second personality that communicates openly with the human one, and shifting forms is voluntary), who finds out the hard way his ex has hired a Huntsman to kill him. Liam gets a step ahead and drives north to Fox Hollow, New York, up in the Adirondacks. Fox Hollow, we find out, was founded by shifters for shifter outcasts, although the public story is that it was settled by disgraced psychics out of Buffalo. Liam's former psychic prof has a job lined up for him and a place to live.

Liam's car breaks down 10 miles out of town, and Russ comes to get the car. Russ is a Wolf Shifter who works at the local garage as well as the fire department. Russ's husband died a few years prior, so he lives with his brother Drew in a cabin they expanded from summer home into year round cabin palace. When they touch, both realize they're Fated Mates, although given their pasts, neither human wants to particularly acknowledge this, even if their animals do. 

There is still the problem of the Huntsman, though, as said villain has followed Liam north from Ithaca, and has other plans in mind for the fox. 

What follows is a fairly smutty romance with quite a bit of danger mixed in, as the Huntsman is using magic and arson to cover his tracks. 

It's a really fun read, as I've come to expect from the author. I will also state there's a brief bit at the end when Russ and Liam acknowledge certain stereotypes among shifters that also seems to apply quite a bit to the real world gay culture, in how certain types are expected to conform to other types and the stereotypes therein (like all foxes are drama twinks, big cats are all jocks, etc.) I don't know how it ended up in here, but it really struck a chord with me.