The Good, The Bad, The Wolf
(2026)(The third book in the Hollow Ridge Pack series)
A novel by Danielle E Voss
She has never lost her composure. Until now.
Dr. Petra Voss has been the Hollow Ridge pack's healer and counselor for seventeen years. She is the steady one — the person the pack leans on when everything else is breaking. She has held complicated things with clinical calm for so long that composure has become the shape of her life.
Then a man comes through her clinic door at eleven-seventeen on a Thursday morning, bleeding from four places and asking for sanctuary.
His name is Leander Cross. Former assassin. Blacklisted by every pack on the continent. He has spent three years building a case against the criminal organization that trained him — and now he needs someone to hold the documentation and route it to the right places before the people hunting him can make it disappear.
He has come to Hollow Ridge because they cleaned up their own house when they found something wrong in it. Because they can be trusted.
He has not come because of Petra specifically.
But when she adjusts his IV line on day one and the mate bond hits — recognition, not a compass, not a key, the specific feeling of encountering something you didn't know you were looking for — the Pale Council's calculation changes.
She's the pressure point now.
And Leander Cross, who has spent fifteen years making sure he didn't have one, is going to have to figure out what to do about that.
The Good, the Bad & the Wolf is the darkest and most emotionally complex book in the Hollow Ridge Pack Series — the story of a woman who has been the steady one for seventeen years finally finding something to hold onto, and a man who built walls that were exactly the right walls for exactly the right reasons, confronting what comes after them.
Expect: A slow, deliberate love story between two people who do nothing carelessly. A mate bond neither of them asked for, handled with rigor and honesty. A pack that closes ranks without being asked. A criminal organization case that threatens both the pack and the regional community. And two people who keep choosing each other, specifically, every day.
Content: This book contains adult language, violence, and sexual content. HEA guaranteed. This is the darkest book in the series; it earns the ending.
Book Three of the Hollow Ridge Pack Series. Each book follows a new couple with a standalone romance arc. Reading order recommended but not required
Dr. Petra Voss has been the Hollow Ridge pack's healer and counselor for seventeen years. She is the steady one — the person the pack leans on when everything else is breaking. She has held complicated things with clinical calm for so long that composure has become the shape of her life.
Then a man comes through her clinic door at eleven-seventeen on a Thursday morning, bleeding from four places and asking for sanctuary.
His name is Leander Cross. Former assassin. Blacklisted by every pack on the continent. He has spent three years building a case against the criminal organization that trained him — and now he needs someone to hold the documentation and route it to the right places before the people hunting him can make it disappear.
He has come to Hollow Ridge because they cleaned up their own house when they found something wrong in it. Because they can be trusted.
He has not come because of Petra specifically.
But when she adjusts his IV line on day one and the mate bond hits — recognition, not a compass, not a key, the specific feeling of encountering something you didn't know you were looking for — the Pale Council's calculation changes.
She's the pressure point now.
And Leander Cross, who has spent fifteen years making sure he didn't have one, is going to have to figure out what to do about that.
The Good, the Bad & the Wolf is the darkest and most emotionally complex book in the Hollow Ridge Pack Series — the story of a woman who has been the steady one for seventeen years finally finding something to hold onto, and a man who built walls that were exactly the right walls for exactly the right reasons, confronting what comes after them.
Expect: A slow, deliberate love story between two people who do nothing carelessly. A mate bond neither of them asked for, handled with rigor and honesty. A pack that closes ranks without being asked. A criminal organization case that threatens both the pack and the regional community. And two people who keep choosing each other, specifically, every day.
Content: This book contains adult language, violence, and sexual content. HEA guaranteed. This is the darkest book in the series; it earns the ending.
Book Three of the Hollow Ridge Pack Series. Each book follows a new couple with a standalone romance arc. Reading order recommended but not required
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