The Wandering Alpha

Nine generations of Cascade alphas have died before their fortieth birthday. Bram Kessler is thirty-eight. He has accepted it. He has a pack that hates the corporate surveyor who just walked into their bar, a territory full of dead wells, and a mate bond that came too late — and too loud — to be polite about it. The surveyor is Ana Sørensen, Rainmaker's hydrologist. She came to warn them. Rainmaker has been poisoning the aquifer for six years to force the pack off the land, and Ana has the paperwork to prove it. Now the pack wants her dead, the corporation wants her buried, and Bram has six weeks, one truck, and a dying man's stubbornness to take a poison sample to the state capital before the wells are gone for good. He isn't supposed to live past forty. But he has never been good at listening to the family curse.