Bound by a Horse Shifter
(2026)(The third book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifters series)
A novel by Ella Tucker
She can find anything that's hidden. Now the man who taught her that has come to take her back.
Lena Cross has been running for eleven months, and hiding for a lot longer than that. She was nineteen when a charming stranger found her — a girl nobody had ever wanted — and told her the thing that got her thrown out of every home she'd ever had was a gift. She can find what's lost. What's buried. Who's hidden, no matter how well. For two years she believed she was helping people. Then she learned what her finding was really for, and what it cost a woman named Marion, and she ran.
She doesn't mean to stop at Willowbrook. She means to fix her car and disappear.
But the valley has other ideas — and so does the silent man who walks its edges.
Eli keeps to the tree line. He feels everything, says almost nothing, and has spent thirty years certain that the day he lets himself want something is the day the dark comes to take it. He takes one look at Lena and knows two things at once: that she's running from something, and that the land has just walked her up his mountain and handed her to him anyway. He can promise her she's safe here. He can't promise her he knows how to love her. But when the reasonable man in the clean gray car finally comes up the road — polite, patient, sorry, so very sorry — Eli is the one thing standing between the valley and a hunter who never takes anything by force.
He doesn't hunt. He finds the loose thread, and he pulls.
And when he does, Lena will have to stop running for good — and turn the one gift that ruined her life on the one man alive who built his whole existence around never being found. To save the people who finally kept her, she'll have to become the thing she's been terrified of her whole life: not the hunted, but the finder who hunts.
The third book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifter series. A sweet-with-heat small-town shifter romance featuring a fiercely protective horse-shifter hero who feels too much, a heroine learning that her curse was a gift all along, a found family with secrets, and a valley that protects its own. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.
Genre: Fantasy
Lena Cross has been running for eleven months, and hiding for a lot longer than that. She was nineteen when a charming stranger found her — a girl nobody had ever wanted — and told her the thing that got her thrown out of every home she'd ever had was a gift. She can find what's lost. What's buried. Who's hidden, no matter how well. For two years she believed she was helping people. Then she learned what her finding was really for, and what it cost a woman named Marion, and she ran.
She doesn't mean to stop at Willowbrook. She means to fix her car and disappear.
But the valley has other ideas — and so does the silent man who walks its edges.
Eli keeps to the tree line. He feels everything, says almost nothing, and has spent thirty years certain that the day he lets himself want something is the day the dark comes to take it. He takes one look at Lena and knows two things at once: that she's running from something, and that the land has just walked her up his mountain and handed her to him anyway. He can promise her she's safe here. He can't promise her he knows how to love her. But when the reasonable man in the clean gray car finally comes up the road — polite, patient, sorry, so very sorry — Eli is the one thing standing between the valley and a hunter who never takes anything by force.
He doesn't hunt. He finds the loose thread, and he pulls.
And when he does, Lena will have to stop running for good — and turn the one gift that ruined her life on the one man alive who built his whole existence around never being found. To save the people who finally kept her, she'll have to become the thing she's been terrified of her whole life: not the hunted, but the finder who hunts.
The third book in the Willowbrook Horse Shifter series. A sweet-with-heat small-town shifter romance featuring a fiercely protective horse-shifter hero who feels too much, a heroine learning that her curse was a gift all along, a found family with secrets, and a valley that protects its own. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.
Genre: Fantasy
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