Convergent Evolution

The town therapist has been listening to everyone else's problems for twelve years. The town is about to return the favor.

Dr. Michael Taylor is a platypus omega who keeps his house at nesting temperature, his schedule airtight, and his clinical voice running commentary on everything including his own loneliness. He's the only platypus in Bad Little Falls. He's been the only platypus in Bad Little Falls since 2012. He's fine.

Angus Burrows is an Australian wombat alpha on a temporary DEP rotation, sampling rivers and writing reports nobody reads. He's got a motel room with someone else's furniture, a coffee machine from the Clinton administration, and no plans past November.

Michael wasn't supposed to want anything this much. Angus wasn't supposed to stay.

Then blackflies drove a wombat out of his clothes on a riverbank, a platypus surfaced six feet away, and two burrowing animals recognized each other across the mud.

Now there's a fated mate bond that hit like a current, a heat that isn't waiting for the clinical voice to finish its analysis, a town that assembled in the diner to say nothing and mean everything, and a deputy who has introduced a new color of tab to his clipboard.

Two unrelated species. Same bank. Same direction.

Convergent Evolution is a cozy, high-heat M/M omegaverse shifter romance with fated mates, knotting, small-town meddling, venomous ankles, cube-shaped droppings, and a guaranteed HEA. Sixth in the Bad Little Falls series. Includes a bonus short story.