The Doctor of Hollow Pine

Fifteen years ago Hollow Pine ran Ilse Berg out for being an unmated wolf. She came back a surgeon. She's here for one week. Sell the clinic, bury her father, leave. Then a logger bleeds through her door at midnight and the man carrying him is the last thing she wants — the pack's enforcer, the council's muscle, her fated mate. Caleb Roan was sent to escort her off the mountain. He stays to hold a lamp while she works. He stays while the fever spread takes the valley. He stays when the council votes to close the only clinic for fifty miles. The mating bond doesn't ask either of them. But Ilse didn't spend fifteen years learning to save people only to let a bond tell her where to do it. A slow-burn fated mates werewolf shifter romance set in a mountain town that keeps its secrets and its sick in the same locked room.