Ahhh, I really enjoyed this! I’d been looking forward to it from the moment I saw the title - I mean, supernatural mating agency? Yes! I also really enjoyed revisiting the Kendrick brothers, sorta, from EJ Russell’s Fae out of Water series.

Ted is a grizzly shifter who isn’t like other beats, preferring to spend time with humans and have friends nearby rather than keep to himself. Unfortunately this gets him into trouble as he creates “Bigfoot sightings” and has a friend capture them, threatening the secrecy of the supernatural community. In an effort to change his ways, Ted signs up for Supernatural Selection and purchases a lodge to fix-up.

Quentin is an incubus who has had himself on suppressants for several decades after he nearly killed his partner during sex. He’s so afraid that something like that will happen again that he goes behind his grandmother’s back and signs up for Supernatural Selection and gets paired with a vampire; he figures if his partner is already dead, he doesn’t have to worry about draining them.

Somehow, Ted and Quentin end up signing contracts that mate them to each other rather than who the drafts of the contracts all claimed would be their perfect match. Their response is to decide to enact the Escape Clause so they can mate who they believe was their perfect match.

I really liked the way the found their way together and made things work. There’s really great scenes of domesticity and I like how they help each other work on the lodge. I also really like how Ted feeds Quentin and in some ways that shows their affection to me. While the story takes place over only a few weeks, it didn’t feel like insta-love and I liked how they had to work to see how, sometimes, mistakes are just the best way to the correct ending.