I came to these rain-soaked woods to catalog wolves from afar.
Pure science.
No entanglements.
Then she crashed through the underbrush, eyes glowing like embers in the gloom, and my notes scattered like my resolve.
Her scent hit first, a wild tang that clawed past my defenses and sank hooks into something feral I'd buried deep. Pack enforcer through and through, she should have ripped me apart for trespassing. Instead, her body pinned mine against damp moss, fangs grazing my throat in a promise that tasted like salvation and sin. Every growl vibrated through me, turning sarcasm into shudders, denial into desperate pleas. I told myself it was adrenaline, research gone wrong. Lies. She was the belonging I'd starved for, knot swelling inside me under that blood moon haze, locking us in throbbing waves that shattered my world.
But she's sworn to her pack, oaths thicker than blood, and I'm the human taint that could unleash their fury. One claiming bite, and it's not just my career in shreds, or my body marked for vengeance, it's her soul torn between loyalty and this unbreakable pull that has us rutting in hidden clearings, bodies slick and fused, vulnerabilities spilling out in the downpour. Rain lashes our shelter as her bravado cracks, husky confessions rumbling against my skin, and I wonder if my rational mind can survive the ache of wanting her ruin as much as she craves mine.
What breaks first, her pack's wrath or the fragile tenderness knotting our hearts? I need her wild embrace to breathe, but one wrong howl, and it all devours us.
A full-length claiming shifter knotting erotic romance featuring a sarcastic solo researcher and a growling pack enforcer. Includes themes of forbidden claiming, knot-locked ecstasy, and pack-defying lesbian passion.