I didn’t come back to Wild Hollow for redemption. I came because the mountains wouldn’t let me stay away. The town needed a sheriff. The pack needed an alpha. I just wanted quiet, coffee, and to be left the hell alone. Then Kate McKinley blew into my life like a warm Appalachian storm, bright, sassy, and completely impossible to ignore. She runs the general store like a queen in boots and flannel, with a pet goose named Hank, and enough charm to make even a battle-scarred wolf forget his scars. My wolf knew her the second we locked eyes. Fated mates. The kind of bond you don’t walk away from—not even if it rips your life in two. But Wild Hollow doesn’t play fair. Old feuds are stirring. Her family’s name is tangled in half the town’s secrets. And while I’m trying to drag this place into the light, she’s caught in the shadows, torn between loyalty to her outlaw kin, and the pull of something wild between us. Now I have a uphold the law or protect the woman fate gave me. And Kate? She’ll have to decide if loving me is worth turning her back on everything she’s ever known. Because in Wild Hollow, secrets don’t stay buried. Not in the soil. Not in the blood. And sure as hell not in the heart of an alpha who’s finally found his mate.