The Wild Ones

She was too much for every community she ever tried to belong to.

He had stopped trying to belong to anything.

The Wildlands brought them both to the same border.

Zane Crowe has been running the Wildlands border alone for three years. Not because he couldn't find a partner. Because alone means nobody else gets hurt. He buried his grief in the most honest place he knows, a territory that doesn't lie, doesn't soften, doesn't ask him to be anything except present and functional.

He was doing fine.

Kai Mercer has been moving since she was twenty-two. Four communities. Four careful, sorry expulsions. Whatever she is, it always proves too much eventually. She's stopped waiting for the exception. She keeps things surface level, stays mobile, and leaves on Tuesdays before anyone can ask her to go.

She was doing fine too.

Then a Market incident exposes an ability nobody can classify and Caden assigns her to the Wildlands border with the pack's most isolated enforcer. Neither of them wanted this. The Wildlands has spent three centuries building toward exactly this configuration and has no interest in their preferences.

Something ancient is moving in the unmapped territory. The breach points are escalating. A threat the pack hasn't seen in decades is waking up in direct response to what Kai is. And the bond between them is activating in a place where nothing is what it isn't and everything that is real gets kept.

Zane is going to have to let someone into the grief instead of around it.

Kai is going to have to stay somewhere long enough to find out she was never the problem.

The Wildlands already knows what they are to each other.

They're the last ones to figure it out.

The Wild Ones is a slow burn paranormal romance with a half-shifter heroine, a brooding wolf enforcer, forced proximity in ancient supernatural territory, and a fated bond that activates under the oldest rules in the world. Part of the Nightveil Blood Series but fully standalone with a complete love story and a deeply satisfying ending.

If you love paranormal romance with fated mates who fight the bond before they choose it, ancient supernatural worlds with real rules and real stakes, and heroines who finally find somewhere large enough to hold them, this one is for you.

Grab your copy and step into the Wildlands.