The Hummingbird’s Gift by Reese Morrison

What if the gods got it wrong?
When children in Rohahen’s tribe come of age, they receive shifter forms from the gods. Sometimes these forms come with an extra gift: strength-sharers can give mental commands while heart-singers can shape others’ emotions.

Rohahen has been hiding his crush on Tier for fifteen years. For the balance of the tribe, the Chief must marry a heart-singer, not a strength-sharer like himself. Only Rohahen is starting to wonder if there might be other ways of being a heart-singer. When Tier starts to return his affection, perhaps he can find the bravery to show the world who he really is. Because the ways of the gods are mysterious. And maybe they didn’t get it wrong after all.

“The Hummingbird’s Gift” is a companion to “Hummingbird and Kraken” and continues the story of one if its primary characters. (It will not make sense as a stand-alone.) It is a friends-to-lovers story with an adorable bison shifter, a uncertain Chief, a heart-singer coming into his own, plenty of heat, and a HEA.