She came to the Pacific Northwest looking for data. She found a wolf.
Dr. Sloane Mercer is a wildlife biologist on a field assignment in the remote corridor — counting apex predators, mapping territory, doing the work she's been doing for eleven years since her brother vanished into these same forests. She's good at her job. She's less good at running from things she finds.
So when her thermal scope picks up something that is definitively not a bear at two in the morning, she doesn't run. She watches. She thinks: what the actual fuck. She gets closer.
Big mistake. Very interesting mistake.
Cain Ashford has been Alpha of his pack for twelve years — since he took it from his father in a challenge that cost him something he's never put a name to. He runs his territory with precision and distance and the kind of controlled authority that comes from never letting anyone see the thing underneath. He has protocols for human witnesses. He has never had a human witness who didn't run.
Sloane doesn't run. She negotiates field access.
He's going to hold her for three weeks until he decides what to do about her. He's going to spend those three weeks learning that some things can't be contained — not wolves, not territories, and not a woman who asks the right questions and writes everything down and looks at him like she can see exactly what he is.
She's going to spend those three weeks finding her missing brother, earning the trust of a pack that didn't ask for her, and failing to notice that she's stopped trying to leave.
The mate bond hits Cain like a fact: immediate, undeniable, inconvenient. A scientist, human, conducting research on his pack.
He's spent twelve years learning to hold the line.
She's spent eleven years studying things that try to stay hidden.
One of them is going to have to give first.
Caught by the Alpha: is a dark wolf shifter romance featuring fated mates, an enemies-to-lovers slow burn, a found family who has opinions about everything, explicit content, and a heroine who says amaze-balls without irony. First in The Ashford Pack series.
Genre: New Adult Romance
Dr. Sloane Mercer is a wildlife biologist on a field assignment in the remote corridor — counting apex predators, mapping territory, doing the work she's been doing for eleven years since her brother vanished into these same forests. She's good at her job. She's less good at running from things she finds.
So when her thermal scope picks up something that is definitively not a bear at two in the morning, she doesn't run. She watches. She thinks: what the actual fuck. She gets closer.
Big mistake. Very interesting mistake.
Cain Ashford has been Alpha of his pack for twelve years — since he took it from his father in a challenge that cost him something he's never put a name to. He runs his territory with precision and distance and the kind of controlled authority that comes from never letting anyone see the thing underneath. He has protocols for human witnesses. He has never had a human witness who didn't run.
Sloane doesn't run. She negotiates field access.
He's going to hold her for three weeks until he decides what to do about her. He's going to spend those three weeks learning that some things can't be contained — not wolves, not territories, and not a woman who asks the right questions and writes everything down and looks at him like she can see exactly what he is.
She's going to spend those three weeks finding her missing brother, earning the trust of a pack that didn't ask for her, and failing to notice that she's stopped trying to leave.
The mate bond hits Cain like a fact: immediate, undeniable, inconvenient. A scientist, human, conducting research on his pack.
He's spent twelve years learning to hold the line.
She's spent eleven years studying things that try to stay hidden.
One of them is going to have to give first.
Caught by the Alpha: is a dark wolf shifter romance featuring fated mates, an enemies-to-lovers slow burn, a found family who has opinions about everything, explicit content, and a heroine who says amaze-balls without irony. First in The Ashford Pack series.
Genre: New Adult Romance
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