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Spare the Bond by Tea Ravine
4.0

If you had your heart set on nothing less than your scent match, how long do you think you’d last before you caved in and changed your mind in your journey to find them? 
 
Bethany Raines has a problem: She didn’t think it was going to be this difficult to find true love, or that it was going to take this long. Now she’s out of money, homeless, and out of time. Her heat is maybe a day or two away and she still hasn’t succeeded in finding her scent matches. Her solution? Hope she can find a pack kind enough to take care of her heat, not bond her in the process, and then let her go at the end. 
 
What she finds instead is a pack of gorgeous and kind alphas she could easily fall in love with, only they don’t believe in love. 
 
Tea Ravine announced this novella as a surprise quasi-prologue to her upcoming novel Scent of Home, which will be the first full novel in the When it Rains omegaverse series (which is likely to be an interconnected series of standalones, just like The Omega Accords). Spare the Bond may be the story of how runaway omega Bethany Raines finds her happy ending with Pack Crow, but it’s also an introduction to the entire Raines Pack, which serves as the nexus of main characters for the When it Rains series. 
 
I love Tea Ravine’s writing and worldbuilding, but what always stands out to me is the way she writes relationships, both romantic and familial. Emotion, comfortable and realistic dialogue, and intimacy aren’t always the easiest things to convey in spicy omegaverse novels, but Ravine somehow manages to make me feel as if I’m right there in the nest or crying in the car. It’s a talent. I can’t wait for more. 
 
I was provided a copy of this title by the author. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you. 
 
File Under: Book Series/Contemporary Romance/Interconnected Series/Kindle Unlimited/LGBTQ Romance/Omegaverse/Romance Series/Polyamorous Romance/Romance Novella/Spice Level 3/Why Choose Romance