River Runs Wild
RIVER RUNS WILD is a 93,000-word shape-shifter rom-com for fans of Kimberly Lemming’s That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf, and Shelly Laurenston’s Honey Badger Chronicles.
Rip off your clothes and grow some fur, it’s time to get wet and wild—otter style!
Stuck in small-town, rural New York, recent college grad Em Cross is dead sure her life is at a dead end. Enter River, a young stranger who’s always in the water, and only appears at night. It’s not because he’s shy, and can’t ever find his shorts. He’s a lonely wereotter in need of a friend, and his sunshiny charm warms Em’s grumpy heart.
Soon, River and Em dive headfirst into a whirlwind romance. Everything goes swimmingly, except for one catch—whenever they get physical, he starts shifting into otter form, and flees with excuses about passing on his infection. But before she can get to the bottom of his mysterious ways—and nonexistent shorts—trouble starts brewing. A massive otter is attacking locals, including Em’s friends, and all signs point to the handsome shifter.
River insists it’s another wereotter in trouble, but Em’s torn. The attacks always happen when River isn’t around. And just as the local gun-toting cryptid hunters launch a hunt for otter meat, Em starts sprouting fur, and develops a mysterious craving for raw fish. Em soon realizes she’s going to have to make an impossible choice: stay a human adrift in her ordinary human life, or choose love, fish, and wild animal passion with a man who might be a dangerous predator in disguise.
About Marie Jolly
Marie Jolly is a fiction writer who loves all things wild and magical. A storyteller since she uttered her first sentence, Marie has written for both adults and children, and is currently focusing on adult paranormals. She's also a high school biology teacher, crochet fanatic, and class clown. She lives in Boston with her very eccentric spouse and a motley collection of exotic reptiles and amphibians.
