Two Spirits by Jory Strong

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Trey is an elementary school teacher who has always made the right thing in his life: he went to university, excelled in study and sport, gradueted and became a teacher, turned back home to take care of his aging mother and found a suitable girlfriend. And when the Feds contacted him saying his girlfriend was involved in a child pornography traffic, he hadn't had any esitation to help them. And now he is flying, trying to find a secure place to avoid the family revenge of his former girlfriend. He has always done the right thing, even when this meant denying his true nature, his desire for other man. But when he sees the deputy assigned to protect him, his past decisions are put in question: he feels an immediate attraction to Tenino, a Native American young man, who has no problem to admit he is gay and very attracted to Trey.

Tenino is a shapeshifter thunderbird, a man of an old breed. He is content to live in the old territory of his people but he yerns for a mate to share his life. And when he meets Trey, he knows he has found his mate.

Two Spirits is a pretty classical M/M story, with a strong alpha male and a cute omega mate. It is even more classical if you think that the author has chosen to pair the classical "romance savage" couple: the strong Native American warrior, dark and muscular, with the weak Anglo Saxon teacher, blond and blue-eyes type. Maybe the story is a little to woman-mind oriented, and I have to say the author didn't push to much on the sex aspect of the story: don't take me wrong, there is a lot of sex, but I feel it somehow tamed then other stories, M/M and not, I have read by Ellora's Cave. I haven't read any M/F stories by Jory Strong, but I know she is an established author of Ellora's Cave, so I have no doubt she is a very good author. And also this story is good, even if a little short, less than 80 pages.

http://www.ellorascave.com/productpage.asp?ISBN=9781419914836

Amazon Kindle: Two Spirits (Thunderbird Chosen)
Publisher: Ellora's Cave (December 19, 2007)

Series:
1) Spirit Flight
2) Spirits Shared
3) Two Spirits

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