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Bonded by DG Ireland is the first book in the series. Adult content.

Introduction to the Shifters: Roman Davenport is a forty-year-old billionaire tech company owner who lives in a secluded, sprawling four-thousand-square-foot house surrounded by two thousand acres of private forest. Despite his vast wealth, success, and uncanny good looks (jet-black hair and bright green eyes), Roman is deeply lonely because he is a shapeshifter—specifically, a massive black panther—and has spent two decades searching the globe for others of his kind without success. While patrolling his property in animal form, Roman hears a crashing sound and discovers a wounded, half-shifted birdman with an arrow in his wing. Roman extracts the arrow and nurses him back to health.The birdman is Gage Stryker, an electronics business owner from Boston who is an enormous eagle shifter. Recognizing they share the same rare condition, Roman and Gage form an unbreakable partnership, build a financial empire together, and remain close roommates as the decades pass.
 
Meeting Ari: Fifty years later, while riding in a limousine, both Roman and Gage are suddenly overwhelmed by an intoxicating, magnetic scent. Tracking the scent to an apartment complex and a nearby restaurant, they encounter Ari Davis, a vibrant seventy-year-old woman with waist-long pure white hair and striking blue eyes who is waiting at a bar for her two adult sons, Jason and Kevin.Though initially baffled by the intense, primal attraction these two younger men hold for her, Ari feels an immediate and powerful physical awakening that she hasn't experienced in over two decades.After a brief lunch where Roman and Gage charm her sons, Ari panics from the overwhelming emotional intensity and flees back to her apartment.
 
Uniting at the Penthouse: Distraught by her absence, Roman and Gage track down her sons to coordinate checking in on her. When Ari returns from a trip to Cozumel, Roman and Gage meet her at the airport baggage claim and bring her home. After a romantic dinner, they bring Ari to their downtown penthouse. There, the three share a passionate, explosive sexual encounter that shatters Ari's doubts.Roman and Gage finally reveal their true nature to Ari, shifting into their giant panther and eagle forms to prove they are shifters. Ari accepts their extraordinary reality, realizing she is inextricably bound to both of them.
 
Moving In and Life at the High-Rise: Ari agrees to move into a luxurious private suite within the penthouse, officially taking on a role as their partner while maintaining a cover story for her sons and friends.She is given an executive position with a generous salary, unlimited access credit cards, and security clearances that allow her to utilize her background as a legendary forensic accountant (known in her past work as "the sifter").During the unpacking process, Ari uncovers an ancient, hand-tooled set of Chinese volumes she bought years ago at an estate sale. Using a hand scanner and translation software, they discover the texts contain historical references to shifters, hinting that they may finally find the origins of their kind.
 
The Cabin Confrontation: The trio travels to Roman and Gage's massive remote cabin in the woods to rest, relax, and study the ancient books.While Roman and Gage take the opportunity to shift and run through the forest, armed trespassers approach the house.Alerted by Gage from the sky and Roman on the ground, Ari retrieves a hidden firearm and boldly confronts the intruders outside, holding them at bay alongside her protective animal mates until the threat is neutralized.