THE BOND DOESN'T ASK PERMISSION.
I moved to Fern Ridge for a fresh start. Small town, affordable rent, a veterinary clinic that needed someone who didn't scare easy. Nobody mentioned the neighbors.
Two hundred and eighty wolf shifters. A territory older than the town. And an alpha who walked into my clinic on a Wednesday morning with a limping dog and a scent that rewired my nervous system before I finished shaking his hand.
Corvin Kade leads the Selvik pack. He's thirty-three, six-two, and holding his territory together with discipline, caffeine, and the kind of control that costs him sleep. He doesn't smile. He doesn't explain. And he definitely didn't plan on his fated mate being a human woman who argues with him about canine vaccination protocols.
I didn't plan on any of this.
Not the bond that makes my pulse spike every time he's in the room. Not the political war inside his pack, where a silver-haired councilman is building a case to have me removed from the territory. Not the full moon where I watched two hundred wolves shift and didn't take a single step backward.
Not the way his hands shook when he told me the truth-all of it, every ugly piece-and then stepped back and let me choose.
My father left without giving anyone a choice. Corvin gave me every choice he had.
That's the difference. That's the whole story.
He thinks the bond chose me. I think I chose him. We're both right, and the man who wants me gone doesn't care about the distinction.
Claimed by the Alpha is a full-length paranormal romance with a complete HEA. Dual POV, present tense, high heat. Features a protective alpha who leads with restraint, a veterinarian heroine who doesn't need saving but doesn't mind the company, pack politics sharp enough to cut, and a fated mate bond that doesn't ask permission. First in the Selvik Wolves series. Each book follows a new couple. No cliffhanger.
Selvik Wolves:
Book 1: Claimed by the Alpha
Book 2: The Beta's Second Chance-coming soon
Book 3: Enforcer's Forbidden Mate-coming soon