The Strong She-Wolf

Evelyn Smith trusted the wrong people, and it cost her everything. One brutal night in her hometown left her scarred, limping, and pregnant, and the mother who should have defended her chose the men who hurt her instead. Branded a disgrace and stripped of her home, her friends, and her future, Evelyn packs what is left of her life into an old car and drives until the road runs out.

It runs out in Peters Hills, a mountain town so small it does not appear on any map. The air is clean, and the local vet clinic needs a pair of hands. For months Evelyn has forgotten how to breathe; here she remembers. She takes the job, rents a room from the warmest couple she has ever met, and slowly learns to sleep without nightmares.

Then a wolf the size of a pony collapses, bleeding, on her path home, and her careful new life cracks wide open. Peters Hills belongs to the Ember pack, and their secret is written in fangs and moonlight. Evelyn stitches their wounded warrior back together, and wakes a gift she never knew she carried. She is a healer, a blessing of the Moon Goddess so rare that the wolves believed her kind extinct. It explains why injured animals have always trusted her, why a pack's instincts soften when she walks into a room, and why she, a mere human, suddenly matters to every power in wolf country.

Belonging to the pack comes with rules, secrets, and one tall, quiet complication named Alex. The Alpha's second son comes home hardened by months of training, the pack's next Gamma. From the first moment, something in Evelyn calls to something deep in him. He finds excuses to sit beside her. He learns how she takes her coffee. When he tucks a stray curl behind her ear, his fingers linger one heartbeat too long, and she catches herself inventing reasons to be in the same room, the same kitchen.

Evelyn knows better than to fall. Her body still carries what the last man did to her, her belly grows with a child she swore to protect alone, and the one time she dares to hope, she is told the worst: a human carrying another wolf's pup, a mate who may be forced to turn her away. So she guards her heart. And Alex, who has never lost a fight in his life, discovers that the hardest battle he has ever faced is waiting for a woman who flinches from every gentle touch.

But her past is not finished with her. Someone from Silver Creek is hunting her, a stalker's eyes tracking her through the woods, and the trail leads to a betrayal closer to home than she ever imagined. When old enemies and new loyalties collide in a single night of violence, Evelyn will learn how far a healer's gift can reach, and that the strongest thing about her was never her magic, her mate, or her title.

A full-length werewolf romance: a wounded heroine with a spine of steel, a protective Gamma hero who earns every inch of trust he is given, small-town pack life, found family, fated mates, and a slow-burn courtship that smolders for hundreds of pages before the door quietly closes. No explicit scenes. One very hard-won happily ever after.