Jack Moreau does not exist on paper.
No birth certificate. No provincial line. No school that kept a file on him past a second year. His family went off the record three generations ago to survive being on it, and Jack turned that inheritance into a career: eight years of investigative reporting, and not one hidden name ever printed.
He arrives at Blackfrost in January with season-long access and one assignment. Cover the review that will decide whether Directive Nine survives.
Then his own body starts telling him something.
At twenty-seven, in the first stable place he has ever lived, Jack presents as an omega. The man who works it out first is the goaltender assigned to escort him through the building: Dmitri Kane, the coach's son, who counts everything, says almost nothing, and has spent nine years leaving a notebook open in his stall hoping his father would walk past and look.
What they build is deliberate. Terms at a kitchen table. Nothing decided inside a window that wasn't decided outside it. A bond taken in an empty pressbox at nine at night, sober, chosen, in the only room in the building that was ever really his.
And then the one thing neither of them planned.
Nobody warned them, because nobody ever studied it. In September Jack starts a list in the back of a notebook and refuses to read it as a set. By January he will be six months along, standing in a Conclave hearing room in front of four cameras, carrying the child of a man on the roster of the franchise hosting the proceedings — and every enemy he made this year will know exactly what to do with that.
He has one move left. It costs him the only name he has ever owned.
Please note: the pregnancy in this book is ongoing when it ends. Jack is twenty-four weeks along on the last page, due in the spring, and the birth belongs to Book 4. The trilogy's on-page birth is Finn's, in Bound by Fate.
Icebound Pack, Book 3. A complete standalone romance with a guaranteed HEA. Contains explicit MM content, an on-page heat and rut, mating and bonding, mpreg, and a man who has never had a home deciding to be findable.
Tropes: late-presenting omega · younger alpha, older omega · mpreg · unplanned pregnancy · forced proximity · slow burn · hidden identity · journalist and subject · found family · pack bonding · first shift · rut · nesting
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Used availability for Wolf Specter's Claimed by Him