LUPINE LUMINESCENCE

She came to study the light. She didn't expect it to know her name. Lena Ashby has spent three years chasing a mystery of bioluminescent plants that appear on no scientific record, glowing in forests where nothing should glow. When her research leads her across the warded boundary of the Ashenmere Reserve in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, she finds more than she bargained for: a forest that breathes with ancient magic, a grove that responds to her touch, and a wolf the size of a draft horse with eyes made of solid silver light. The wolf is Darian Voss. Alpha. Two hundred and thirty-one years old. And the last being on earth who should be looking at Lena the way he's looking at her. Darian has kept his pack alive through two centuries of supernatural threats by being the most controlled thing in any room. He has one law above all others: no mating bonds. He wrote that law over the grave of the woman he failed a hundred years ago, and he has never been tempted to break it. Until now. Because Lena is moon-touched, a rare human carrying dormant wolf-magic in her blood, the only force capable of healing the dying ley-line that sustains Darian's pack. And his luminescence, the ancient wolf-magic that marks him as Alpha, recognizes her in a way he cannot explain, cannot control, and cannot afford to want. Forced to stay within Ashenmere's borders while hunters from a shadowy order close in, Lena finds herself drawn deeper into a world her rational mind insists cannot exist and into the orbit of a man who has spent two centuries forgetting how to be warm. As the ley-line fractures and the danger escalates, the pull between them builds into something neither of them has the language for. But Darian is hiding something about Lena's past. And when the truth surfaces, it will cost them everything unless they choose each other anyway. Lupine Luminescence is a slow-burn paranormal romance featuring a brooding, luminescent Alpha wolf, a sharp-minded heroine who finds magic in data, forced proximity, fated mates resisted and reclaimed, and a love story that burns silver-white in the dark.