Returning with His Child

Amelia has been the Blue Pine pack's nothing for as long as she can remember. Orphaned young when her parents died shielding her from a wolf attack, she was taken in by the Alpha's household as a servant — a punchline, a punching bag, a girl to blame. The only warmth under that roof came from Benjamin, the heir's little brother, the one person who decided she was worth protecting.

Then came the night of Hilton's birthday — the night a werewolf finally meets the mate the goddess chose for him. Amelia got her answer, and it broke her. The man fate picked for her rejected her almost as soon as their bond was sealed. She left farewell letters on every bed in the pack house and vanished before dawn.

Alone in a far city, she discovered she was carrying the child of the man who had thrown her away. She had every reason to give up. Instead she chose the bean-sized heartbeat, turned her one talent into a trade, caught the eye of a kind Alpha named Bane who became the older brother she never had, and built her own restaurant from nothing.

Five years later, Amelia comes home.

She walks back into the Blue Pine pack with little LB — a football-mad boy with his father's eyes and his mother's stubborn heart — and the moment Hilton scents his own blood in the child, the life he built starts to crack. The mate he threw away is back: harder, brighter, impossible to ignore. He wants a second chance. She wants an apology. Neither of them is ready for the way old love walks back in and picks up exactly where it left off.

But coming home is not the same as being safe. Shelly, the jealous she-wolf who slid into the Luna's seat within months of Amelia's flight, is done waiting and starts playing with fire. Benjamin, the boy who chased Amelia's scent out of loyalty and vanished five years ago, finally walks back through the door — gaunt, guarded, alive — and the shadow that kept him brings a bill: Dan, the vampire king of the valley, a patient collector who has learned that the fastest way to break an Alpha is to take what he loves. The boy for the debt. The female for the crown.

Now the servant girl everyone threw away stands in the shield line while the mate who broke her fights to deserve her. Amelia never asked to be Luna. She only wanted her son safe. But the pack that watched her scrub their floors is about to learn what a cornered mother is worth, and Hilton is about to learn that winning a woman back is not a claim — it is a courtship, one dead rabbit at a time.

Returning with His Child is a full-length werewolf romance of a rejected mate returning with her child: second-chance love that earns every inch, a brother found and lost and found again, a war the quietest wolf in the valley never meant to win, and an ending with a meadow, a howl that sounds like home, and a family that almost wasn't.