Three Alphas, One Mate

Three Alphas. One Mate. No precedent.

They call it fate when it suits them. Joanie McKee calls it a Tuesday night gone sideways. She came home to Johnstown, Pennsylvania to take care of her father after his stroke, not to land in the middle of a feud between three families she never knew existed. But at 1:17 a.m. a battered pickup screams into the animal hospital parking lot, and a man covered in blood carries in a wolf he swears is a dog. Joanie takes one look. That is not a dog. Eight years of emergency medicine tells her the creature on her table is wild, enormous, and watching her like she is the answer to a question she hasn't been asked yet.

That man is Jack Dalton, who runs his family's excavation company and has a scar under his chin and a patience in his hands that undoes her. The paramedic who walks in behind him is Matt Kowalski, a firefighter with a crooked nose and a broken marriage he still can't explain. And the salvage yard owner who shows up before dawn is Nate Dugan, who reads books about sunken ships and wants things he has spent his whole life teaching himself not to want. Three Alphas of three rival packs. Men who have circled each other with bared teeth since they were boys. They have never agreed on anything in their lives. Then they catch her scent, and for the first time all three of them want the same thing. Her.

Their law is ancient and absolute. One Alpha. One mate. One claim. The only precedent is 1948, when two Alphas went to war over a she-wolf and seven people died before she disappeared. Nobody ever asked that woman what she wanted. Now the packs are gathering, the old men are polishing the old rules, and everyone in three families has an opinion about what Joanie McKee should do. Everyone except Joanie.

She has spent thirty years letting circumstances make her choices for her. Waiting for her ex to decide. Waiting for her father's stroke to force her hand. Waiting for the other shoe. Not this time. This time she looks at three proud, stubborn, dangerous men and makes her own decision, out loud, in her own kitchen. She wants them all. In her bed, in her life, in her house with her name on the deed. The law says one human woman cannot hold three Alphas. The men who love her say the law was never biology. It was fear. And fear can be rewritten.

From a burned hillside at sunrise to a Tuesday night where a man fixes a cabinet hinge she never asked him to fix, this is a scorching, complete, stand-alone wolf shifter romance about a woman who stops waiting and starts choosing. For readers who want their heroines human, their heroes possessive as hell, and their happily ever after big enough for four.

For readers 18+