No Pack, No Bond

Ten years ago, Callum Ridge rejected Isla Brandt at the Mating Moon and let the Ironhollow pack drive her out of the territory. She stopped shifting. She stopped looking back. Now Isla is a federal smokejumper in the Cascades, jumping into fires she can't run from, and Ironhollow is burning. The pack calls in the federal crew. The crew's lead jumper is Isla. Nine days on the line. An elder carried out of a burning lodge in a wolf's jaws. A wife who leaves for a bigger pack. A ridge above Ironhollow where the man who broke Isla's heart has built a cabin and torn up his own council seat. Isla will come back. She will not come back as Luna. She will come back to the ridge, to the fire lines, to the life she built without him — and Callum can stay, if he can live with a woman who never needed a bond to be whole.