Under a Blood Moon

by Briar Thorne · Ongoing · 15 chapters

Veterinarian Wren Ashby has built a quiet, steady life mending broken animals in the hill country outside her small town. She doesn't believe in fate, mates, or anything she can't stitch closed with a needle and thread. That certainty lasts exactly as long as it takes an injured wolf to open its eyes in her clinic and turn, mid-breath, into a man.\n\nThe wolf is Kade Ashgrove, alpha of a pack that has kept itself hidden in the forest above her town for generations, and the moment his eyes meet hers, something locks into place that neither of them asked for and neither of them can undo. Kade has spent his life building walls around his pack and himself; a mate bond is a leash any enemy could grab, and he has enemies enough already. Wren has spent hers refusing to need anyone. Neither is prepared for how hard it is to walk away from something that fits.\n\nAs the bond pulls them together despite Kade's resistance, the fragile truce with the neighboring Voss pack starts to fracture, and Wren finds herself standing in the middle of a conflict she never signed up for, in a world with its own laws, its own dangers, and its own idea of what she now belongs to. She'll have to decide how much of her old life she's willing to give up for a man who isn't sure he's allowed to want her back.