Wren Vasquez has been a freelance tracker for eleven years. She is exceptional at the work because her younger sister Lila was killed by wolves outside Wenatchee in 2014, and Wren has been preparing, across the eleven years since, to find the people responsible and put silver into their throats.
She has, until now, been hunting in the wrong direction.
When Cassian Blackthorn — alpha of the exiled Blackthorn pack, a man who has not had a woman in his house in fifteen years — calls her down to the Cascades to track a killer whose pattern matches her sister's, Wren takes the contract because the work is what she has been preparing for. She does not tell him she came to his property believing he was the man who ordered Lila killed. She does not tell him because she discovers, across the first three days of the work, that the architecture of the killings was not built by his pack at all. It was built against them.
And the man who built it has been waiting, for a hundred years, for a wolf in Cassian Blackthorn's family and a tracker named Vasquez to be in the same room at the same time.
She has, until now, been hunting in the wrong direction.
When Cassian Blackthorn — alpha of the exiled Blackthorn pack, a man who has not had a woman in his house in fifteen years — calls her down to the Cascades to track a killer whose pattern matches her sister's, Wren takes the contract because the work is what she has been preparing for. She does not tell him she came to his property believing he was the man who ordered Lila killed. She does not tell him because she discovers, across the first three days of the work, that the architecture of the killings was not built by his pack at all. It was built against them.
And the man who built it has been waiting, for a hundred years, for a wolf in Cassian Blackthorn's family and a tracker named Vasquez to be in the same room at the same time.
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