🏡 Small Town Romance

Margot keeps the books for a dying logging town that empties out every full moon—and survives by refusing to ask why. Then a mutilated body surfaces from the river clutching a silver-and-jade pendant identical to her late mother's, and the town's reclusive landowner tells her the dead man's scent matches her own. Dorian is an alpha, the town is his pack, and Margot's blood carries something his kind has feared and hunted for generations: the bloodline that makes alphas. As a rival pack closes in to claim her, the woman who swore she'd never shift is about to learn exactly how powerful—and how dangerous—she was born to be.

When a small-town veterinarian inherits her grandmother's cabin in a mountain town she's never heard of, nothing adds up. Everyone's too healthy, too quiet, too watchful. Her grandmother's journal is full of drawings of wolves with human eyes and notes about a debt unpaid. The brooding man who runs the hardware store keeps showing up to fix things she didn't ask to be fixed. And her dog won't stop growling at him.

She spent ten years saving her family's vineyard — then lost it to the corporate raider who bought up the debt. He came to liquidate the land and move on to the next deal. But the estate can't be sold until the season's harvest is in, so he keeps her on to bring it home: one last crush, and then he sells out from under her. She has until the final grape is picked to prove the place is worth more whole than carved up for parts — and he means to be gone the moment it's done. Neither of them planned on the long nights in the cellar, or how hard it is to walk away from something you've started to build.

Rae works the overnight shift at a 24-hour diner off the interstate. Same truckers, same coffee, same nothing. Then a quiet stranger starts showing up every Tuesday at 2 AM — and two months later, she sees his face on the news.