Unicorns and Wyverns, OH MY!

So yesterday was super duper busy for me, and I didn't get to finish the book that I had planned for today.  But you know what?  That's okay!  Zoe Chant released the next book in her Fire and Rescue Shifters series, and it just happens to take place around Christmas!  Firefighter Unicorn is a book that I've been waiting for.  I figured out in the first book, if I remember right, that paramedic Hugh Argent was a mythical unicorn shifter (I mean really.... mythical shifter, healing powers, silver/white glow?  Am I the only one who made this jump?), but I was really curious to see how his story would unfold.  Unicorn mythology all seems to center around being pure and virginal. How exactly is someone supposed to pair that with a romance novel?

Ms. Chant manages it quite wonderfully.  Hugh is paired with Ivy Viverna, who we met a few books ago, and quite frankly, most of the team doesn't particularly like her.  Ivy is a wyvern shifter who just happens to be deadly to the touch, no matter what form she's in.  So needless to say, she hasn't exactly done the horizontal tango with anyone.  Due to her poisonous nature and needing to earn money, she managed to get on the wrong side of the Fire and Rescue team in that other book.  She seems to get easily involved with the less legal side of the world, particularly those who want her to make poisons for them.  When Ivy finds out that Hugh is a healer, she goes to him for help with a specific situation.

See, Ivy has a little sister, Hope, who is confined to a wheelchair.  They think she has a degeneratvie muscular/skeletal disorder that has left her, at this point, unable to walk.  Hugh discovers that there is just a poison buildup in Hope's system, adn he does his best to heal it.  However, on the way, Ivy managed to get caught up with a man on the wrong side of the law, one who desperatly wants her to work for him.  Ivy, Hope, and Hugh flee to Hugh's parents' house, and that's where we discover that Hugh is the heir to an Earldom.  It was a bit of a HOLY S*** moment for me.  That one I didn't expect. 

When Hugh is kidnapped, and subsequently looses his unicorn half, can Ivy heal him?  And what do you think Hope might have as a Christmas present for Ivy?

If you like this book, make sure you check out the first five!  You don't really need to read the others to enjoy this book, but they all work together really beautifully.