Tawk is a rare Sentry Dragon looking for a new witch to protect. He needs to find a witch or a coven to feed his dragon power, but the one who is calling to him has abandoned his Sister’s Edge Crew and is building a life in Wreck’s Mountains with monsters. He won’t fit in there, but what choice does he have? He has to try. His presence in Wreck’s Mountains brings him to the brink of war, and when old allies turn into new enemies show up hunting the witch he is supposed to protect, he looks like a traitor. The only thing keeping him in Wreck’s Mountains? A human who has been unintentionally calling to his dragon. Does she know the danger she is in? Does she know her life could be over if she draws the attention of the dragon too much? Tammy is fierce, loyal, brave, and beautiful, but she’s human, and humans don’t match with Sentry Dragons. They never have. He will ruin her life, but as she drags him closer and closer, the lines of loyalty to the witch’s power become blurred.

Now, all he hungers for is her.

Tammy Ray Lynch is getting her entire life together. She’s worked hard to shed her past and step into her own. She’s right at the crossroads of securing the future she’s always wanted for herself when a strange-eyed shifter shows up in her bar. She’s followed the Cold Foot Crew to Montana and is working hard to set down healthy roots in this town. Too bad a powerful dragon shifter named Tawk is undermining everything she has worked for. She has vowed never to fall in love again, but he is demolishing all of her walls. The more she comes to understand the mysterious shifter, the more she cares, and the deeper the trouble she is in. The realization of Tawk’s powers will change her life forever.
Some of the Cold Foot Crew say everything happens for a reason, but she just can’t see it.

Tawk could be the love of her life, or the end of it.

Titles in the Wreck’s Mountains series (part of the Damon’s Mountains universe) include:  Cold Foot King ~ Cold Foot Komodo ~ Cold Foot Croc ~ Cold Foot Cash ~ Cold Foot Curse ~ Cold Foot Sentry ~ Cold Foot Revenge ~

This is an adult 18+ story that contains language, possible violence, and/or sexual situations geared to an adult audience.

Title:  Cold Foot Sentry
Series:  Wreck’s Mountains #6
Author:  T. S. Joyce
Published:  July 26, 2025
My Rating:  4.5 stars

Cold Foot Sentry is the sixth title in the Wreck’s Mountains series, a connection to the Damon’s Mountains Universe, and brings us Tammy’s and Tawk’s unexpected and complicated romance.

We met Tawk in Jess and Kade’s story, the sentry dragon who feeds off of a witch’s powers and needs a witch for their very existence.  He followed Jess when she moved into the Cold Foot Crew’s territory when she mated with Kade.  He had no other choice in his mind.  He wasn’t there to harm, but he also couldn’t stay with the crew who had harmed so many in the past.  Do sentry dragons get second chances?  Tawk isn’t sure, but since leaving the evil influence of his former crew, he’s questioning things.  Feeling things… and everyone knows that sentry dragons do not have “feelings”, right?

We first met Tammy in Harley and Cash’s story, as she owned a bar in Bozeman that Harley, then Cash, frequented.  She’s made changes in her life, for the betterment of herself, and moved to Darby, Montana, where the Cold Foot Crew lives.  She’s intent on finishing her college classes, admittedly years later than she should have, and building a new, fresh start in a town where she at least knows some people who encourage her to fulfill her dreams.  She never would have imagined that one barely talking, sexy dragon would change her life forever… and just maybe she’d change his, too.

Cold Foot Sentry by T. S. Joyce is emotionally intense.  Not only because of the building relationship between Tammy and Tawk, but because of something unimaginable that happened, something that changed the dynamics of the crew.  I hurt for so many people then, and while I understood why it could have happened, it changed my opinion of a character in a way that I’m not used to.  I never expected to feel that level of disappointment in a fictional character that I had “championed”, but… the emotion was very real.

If you love a well-written, gripping shifter romance that will hold you enthralled throughout, then you’d love Cold Foot Sentry by T. S. Joyce.  I am definitely looking forward to Cold Foot Revenge, up next, for some long-awaited answers.

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