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Born to Be Badger: The Honey Badger Chronicles, Book 5
by Shelly Laurenston
About this book
Emily Tock Meyerson-Jackson is a honey badger shifter with a singular, lethal focus: dismantling the brutal coalition of lion shifters trafficking humans for sport. She is a woman on a mission, and she has absolutely no room in her schedule for distractions, especially not the kind that purr. Enter Shay Malone, a football-playing tiger shifter who is as ferociously adorable as he is frustratingly persistent. While Tock is busy hunting predators, Shay is busy trying to charm his way into her life.
This installment of the Honey Badger Chronicles is a masterclass in the paranormal romance genre. It expertly weaves together high-stakes action and a dark-romance edge, creating a world where the line between predator and prey is constantly shifting. As a brewing war between rival cat families threatens to consume everything, Tock and Shay find their agendas overlapping. When she discovers the coalition is behind the murder of Shay’s father, the reluctant partners are forced into a dangerous game of vengeance.
If you crave multi-shift dynamics, witty banter, and characters who bite back, this series is your next obsession. Shelly Laurenston delivers a high-octane blend of laugh-out-loud humor and intense, steamy chemistry. Revenge has never been this hot.
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
- B0CNDC8M98
Reader Reviews
December 1, 2023
I LOVE these books, the tigers, lions, and badgers, oh my, not to mention the bears, wolves, and all of the other shifters that roam through Shelly Laurenston’s AMAZING books! I have yet to read a Shelly Laurenston book that I haven’t loved! If you like shifter stories, filled with fun, romance, danger, and laugh out loud humor, you’ll love her books too! I especially love her Badger books. Her Badgers are crazy, and I mean that in the best possible way. And, her Badgers aren’t just crazy,...
May 15, 2026
Oh my love love Shelly Laurenston and her badgers. If you haven’t read her books then start now. Thanks for another chuckling read. Well done and thoroughly recommended. )
March 5, 2024
4.5 stars I don’t know why I held off on reading this one. Well, it’s probably because I knew I’d need to reread at least the last book to re-familiarize with the characters…but then I reread ALL of the previous books in the series (4 in total), so here we are! 🤷🏽♀️ • Oh, how I enjoyed this book! I remember being so excited when I saw that we had gotten another “Badger” book and I was curious to know who we would focus on. It seems we are now pairing up Max’s team mates, so this one was...
March 5, 2024
](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_avp?ie=UTF8&nodeId=G8UYX7LALQC8V9KA) 4.5 stars I don’t know why I held off on reading this one. Well, it’s probably because I knew I’d need to reread at least the last book to re-familiarize with the characters…but then I reread ALL of the previous books in the series (4 in total), so here we are! 🤷🏽♀️ • Oh, how I enjoyed this book! I remember being so excited when I saw that we had gotten another “Badger” book and I...
August 8, 2025
The latest “Honey Badger” book is a great read, filled with humor. While best rated “R”, it is anything but smutty, and advances the whole series while continuing the humorous insanity that surrounds the McKilligan sisters. Best read when you have nothing special planned, because you will not want to put it down. One question, what did the elder Van Holtzes do after Charlie was done in their kitchen? ) One person found this helpful
