The Sheriff and the Stray
(2025)(The first book in the Dustbite Coyotes series)
A Story by Ashlyn Dupree
I wasn’t supposed to find my mate in the sheriff’s trailer. I was supposed to steal what I needed and run.
Colt Warrick has a badge, a gun, and every reason to turn me in.
I’m the half-feral omega who broke into his trailer looking for a place to hide. The men he’s hunting are the same ones I used to run with—the ones who used me, marked me, and left me for dead. Men like Colt don’t save strays like me. They lock us up. Hand us over. Decide we’re already too broken to be worth the trouble.
Instead, he gives me a couch, a sandwich, and one dangerous second chance.
I don’t believe in fated mates. Not after what I’ve survived. Not when my body still remembers every hand that hurt me. But when my heat hits and Colt’s alpha answers, there’s no pretending this is only protection.
He’s not just hiding me.
He’s claiming me.
Now the Dustbite Riders are knocking, Colt’s badge is on the line, and every secret in Dustbite Creek is coming for us. If I run, I might survive. If I stay, I might belong to the one man strong enough to keep me.
And Colt Warrick has made one thing brutally clear.
No one touches what’s his.
The Sheriff and the Stray is a steamy M/M mpreg shifter romance featuring a protective alpha sheriff, a wounded runaway omega, fated mates, heat, knotting, forced proximity, found family, danger, and a guaranteed HEA. Book 1 in the Dustbite Coyotes series.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Colt Warrick has a badge, a gun, and every reason to turn me in.
I’m the half-feral omega who broke into his trailer looking for a place to hide. The men he’s hunting are the same ones I used to run with—the ones who used me, marked me, and left me for dead. Men like Colt don’t save strays like me. They lock us up. Hand us over. Decide we’re already too broken to be worth the trouble.
Instead, he gives me a couch, a sandwich, and one dangerous second chance.
I don’t believe in fated mates. Not after what I’ve survived. Not when my body still remembers every hand that hurt me. But when my heat hits and Colt’s alpha answers, there’s no pretending this is only protection.
He’s not just hiding me.
He’s claiming me.
Now the Dustbite Riders are knocking, Colt’s badge is on the line, and every secret in Dustbite Creek is coming for us. If I run, I might survive. If I stay, I might belong to the one man strong enough to keep me.
And Colt Warrick has made one thing brutally clear.
No one touches what’s his.
The Sheriff and the Stray is a steamy M/M mpreg shifter romance featuring a protective alpha sheriff, a wounded runaway omega, fated mates, heat, knotting, forced proximity, found family, danger, and a guaranteed HEA. Book 1 in the Dustbite Coyotes series.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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