Review of Heat Mountain

Blurb: Everyone knows that omegas can’t be doctors, not with the alpha-dominated medical establishment still stuck a hundred years in the past. So when she arrives in Heat Mountain for her month-long wilderness medicine fellowship, Holly plans to do the same thing she has always done…pretend to be a beta.

Until her designation suppressing medication fails spectacularly and she ends up accidentally bonded to the hottest pack of alphas in town, one of whom also happens to be her boss.

With both her medical license and professional reputation at risk, Holly also now has three obsessive alphas shadowing her every move. They will do anything to prove that she—and this bond—aren’t going anywhere.

But the challenge isn’t as simple as navigating her career and relationships, it’s learning to embrace a side of herself that she spent years trying to ignore.

As tensions rise and old wounds reopen, will Holly risk everything she thought she wanted for the pack she never knew she needed?

Review: Holly Chang only wants to be a doctor, but life isn't fair in the Alpha-dominated medical world, and she must hide her Omega designation. Yet a winter storm lands her inside a pack's house when she's starting her heat. She accidentally bonds one of them and they fall hard for her. They'll do anything to convince her that they belong together, but Holly will have to give up everything. Will she risk a career she's worked so hard for a pack she doesn't know how to be an Omega to?

This is the second book in the sweet reverse harem Omegaverse romance series, DestinationVerse. I didn't read the first book, and I didn't miss anything by not doing so. This story is all unto itself, and it was light and fun. I love seeing a smart and confident Omega, who even when she newly discovers that aspect of herself, stays true to herself. There's great tension between Holly and the pack, and they each have their own way of spoiling her. My favorite is Grayson. He's the nonthreatening masked Alpha trope done right. Usually I don't like the masked trope, but it works for Grayson's personal reasons rather than criminal ones. There are plenty of sweet moments and some steamy ones too.

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