I read this story with my eyes a little over 2 years ago and I loved it. There’s not a lot that I can add to my original review (below) except to say what a wonderful job John Solo did performing the audiobook. I should also note that since my original review Morgan Brice has written several other stories set in the Fox Hollow Zodiac world. Several of them are novellas but there is one new novel: Again which is great. Not all of these are listed on Amazon as part of the series so here’s a link to the series on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/series/295611-fox-hollow-zodiac.

I almost forgot to say that my husband and I listened to this together on a road trip and he really enjoyed it, too, even though he is not a fan of M/M romance. 😊

Original review:
I enjoyed reading the Huntsman so much; it has so many different things going on to make it a really interesting book. A fox shifter is being hunted, his fated mate wolf shifter rescues him when his car breaks down, a town that is shifter friendly and home to different kinds of shifters, and humans with psychic abilities.

Liam fled for his life and left everything behind when a friend told him there was a bounty on his head and he was being tracked by a Huntsman. A professor of his from his university days offered him a job in a remote town in the Adirondacks but he was going to turn it down until his situation changed dramatically and quickly.

Russ is grieving the loss of his husband two years ago. When he gets the call that someone needs a tow, he is stunned to find out that it may be his fated mate. He thought fated mates was just a myth until he experienced the pull for himself.

There is more to the Huntsman than what we know from the blurb and I loved how Morgan Brice kept me guessing as to what was going to happen next. I loved Russ’s brother, Lowe, who stood by him when Russ came out to his pack and they threw him out. They moved to Fox Hollow ten years ago and are a vital part of the community.

The story grabbed me right from the beginning and didn’t let up until I finished it. Even then, it just whetted my appetite for more stories set in this world. The town of Fox Hollow has an interesting history that is explored in this story and I’m sure it will also come into play in future books. There were several secondary characters in this book that I hope we will see get primary roles in future stories. I can’t wait to read more.

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Liam’s hands tightened around the steering wheel as he tried to get his breathing under control. He glanced into the backseat of his old Honda Civic, double-checking that his computer bag and duffel were there.

Spring came late to this part of Upstate New York, and temperatures could still drop below freezing, making for patches of black ice on the road. The last thing Liam needed now was to wreck. His ten-year-old car handled well on snow and started reliably in cold weather— qualities he’d need where he was going. Liam shivered in his light jacket. He owned a decent winter coat—which he had remembered to grab from his closet, along with his boots, gloves, scarf, and hat—since Ithaca still got plenty of snow. But winter in Fox Hollow, way up in the Adirondack Mountains, promised to be a whole new experience.

Screw it. I can deal with cold and snow. I can’t deal with being hunted.

The warning call had come at six in the evening, not long after Liam had gotten home from his shift at the Ithaca College library, where he had landed an assistant librarian job after he finished his degree two years ago. The job he had just ditched, along with his apartment and friends, to run for his life.

Jeb was one of the few shifters Liam knew. So when Jeb’s warning wasn’t just that a hitman was after Liam, but a Huntsman—a legendary, near-mythical boogieman of a predator—Liam had dropped everything and fled.

He skidded, and for just a second, felt his tires lose traction. Liam eased off the gas pedal, steered into the skid, and evened out. If late spring was this cold and icy, he didn’t want to think what real winter would hold.

Hyperventilating and passing out won’t help.

Thank the gods for Dr. Jeffries. When his favorite undergrad professor left Ithaca for a new role at the Fox Institute, he told Liam that if he ever needed a job or a place to go in a pinch, to give him a call. Jeffries knew Liam didn’t have any family to count on, and the two of them had bonded over a shared interest in mythology and folklore.

Just a few days ago, Jeffries had called to float a job opportunity by Liam—the head librarian position at the Fox Hollow Community Library, which also included managing the summer arts festival and the “Fall Fling” in conjunction with the Institute. At first glance, Liam had been perplexed, since while the role offered more creativity, it was also a step down in pay. He’d promised to think about it.

Then the warning came, and he ran. Now he needed a new job—far away from Ithaca.

Liam had called Jeffries from a rest stop a few hours ago to ask if the job was still open and if he could come up for an interview. Jeffries said that he’d taken the liberty of presenting Liam’s resume to the search committee and that they wanted to offer Liam the job—which also included housing.

That’s how things worked, Liam guessed, when your old prof taught at a place run by a bunch of psychics.

Liam had been gobsmacked, caught between feeling extremely grateful for a safe harbor and a little discombobulated over not actually having even interviewed. Jeffries had assured him they’d work everything out when he got there, and that he would explain it all. So Liam kept driving, but now he was running toward something instead of just away from the Huntsman.

He had his phone plugged into a cigarette-lighter adapter to play music and run his GPS, but the farther he got into the mountains, the more often the signal dropped. Once he was north of Utica, towns became fewer and farther between. Plenty of mountains, lakes, and forest filled in the gaps.

He had done a little research on his destination. Out of curiosity he had looked up Fox Hollow after Dr. Jeffries had called the first time. Fox Hollow had been partly settled by people from Lily Dale, a small community south of Buffalo founded by believers in the Spiritualist Movement—psychics, mediums, and those who believed that not only was there life after death, but that those with special talents could “pierce the Veil” and communicate with departed souls.

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