Stitched by the Border Doctor

Junie Park is a damn good ER nurse and a wolf with no pack — rejected at sixteen, she stopped shifting the same year. When a John Doe rolls into Border General with a wolf bite and silver in his blood, Junie knows the face under the blood: Dr. Ezra Vance, the Marrow Creek healer who stood by while her pack sent her away. Ezra wakes with a warning: the Alpha is dying of the same sickness, and no human hospital can save him. Junie says no. Then the Alpha's mate dies on Junie's table, and the pattern becomes a poison — tainted silver moving through a human medical supplier and into the pack's veins. Junie and Ezra trace the lot numbers, break into a warehouse, and carry the evidence to a council that owes her an apology. She will not take the pack's title. She will take the files, her badge, and a colleague — and the bond between them can stay open and quiet for as long as she says so.