Her Guardian Alpha

Victoria Johnson is the human nobody in a town that is not what it seems. Most of her classmates can turn into wolves, and she does not know it yet. What she does know is how it feels to be Riley's favorite target, to waitress long shifts at a small-town diner, and to flinch when a hand moves too fast, because at home her older brother drinks, rages, and leaves bruises she has to hide. Her mother is always away. Her father is gone. Victoria has stopped expecting anyone to stay.

Then a gray-eyed stranger catches her when she falls.

Howard Matthews is the future alpha of the Blood Moon Pack, in town to help push rogues back from an ally's border. He has been raised to lead, to protect, to put his pack first, and the moment one waitress's scent reaches him, every rule of his careful life reorders itself around her. She is human. She knows nothing of mates, or packs, or the moon goddess who long ago decided she belongs beside him. And she has been hurt by every hand that ever claimed to care.

So Howard does what a guardian does. He shadows her home through the woods and tells no one. He transfers into her school and takes the empty seat beside her. He notices when she does not eat, learns where she hides at lunch, and steps between her and the bullies without ever making a scene. When she says stop, he stops. When she flinches, he lets go. His patience is absolute, until the night her brother's violence finally goes too far and leaves Victoria bleeding on her own living room floor.

Because Victoria is about to learn that her quiet, steady boy has teeth. That the uncle he is staying with is an alpha. That the woods she was warned never to walk alone are full of rogues, and that the black wolf who saves her from one can fold itself into the man she loves and say three impossible words: I am the wolf.

Now Victoria must choose between the ordinary human life she always wanted and a secret world that has already claimed her, a world that would ask her to stand beside an alpha as his Luna, in front of a pack that has never answered to a human. Howard has already decided what he is willing to give up. The question is whether Victoria can believe in forever with someone who is more than he seems, and whether a girl taught to expect nothing can finally accept everything.

Her Guardian Alpha is a fated-mates werewolf romance with slow-burn trust, fierce protective devotion, found family, one meddlesome pug named Alfred, and enough tension to singe your fingertips. The doors close on the steam, and the love story burns all the brighter for it.

If you love wounded heroines, alphas who earn their forever, and small towns with sharp secrets, start reading Her Guardian Alpha tonight.