SHADOW OF THE NORTHERN PACK

She crossed a border that wasn't supposed to be crossable. He was the last line of defense standing in her way.

Sable has spent her entire life running. Born beyond a seal most of the world forgot to fear, she's watched everyone she loves scatter, vanish, or fall to something ancient and patient that calls itself hunger and means it literally. When the barrier finally starts to fail, she does the one thing her people never dared. She crosses it, wounded and half starved, straight into the territory of a pack that has no reason to believe a word she says.

Commander Ronan has one job: keep Thornwood's border secure, no exceptions. A half dead stranger claiming the ancient seal is failing should be an easy call. Lock her up, extract answers, move on. Instead, he finds himself staking his reputation, his judgment, and eventually his heart on a woman the entire pack has every reason to distrust.

As the evidence mounts that Sable is telling the truth, and that something intelligent and terrifyingly patient is testing the boundary for the first time in generations, Ronan and Sable are pushed into an alliance neither of them saw coming. Forced proximity turns into partnership. Partnership turns into something neither of them is prepared to name, not with an ancient threat closing in and a sacrifice on the table that could cost them everything they've only just found in each other.

Shadow of the Northern Pack is a slow burn, high stakes paranormal romance about the courage it takes to trust a stranger, the price of finally being believed, and a love strong enough to hold a barrier between the world and something ancient enough to remember when it was young.

Perfect for readers who love: forced proximity, protector heroes, morally complex ancient threats, found family, fated bond adjacent romance, and a heroine who saves herself and everyone she loves.

Book Two of the Thornwood Bond trilogy. Can be read as a standalone, though fans of Book One will recognize familiar

faces.