Keep Her Safe From Me

Elias has spent two years hiding in plain sight as a human mountain rescue technician, waiting for the rogue Alpha who destroyed his border mission to strike again. He has one rule: never let a human get close enough to see the wolf beneath his skin. Then a blizzard forces him to carry a dying hiker off a cliff, and the doctor waiting at the bottom is his fated mate. Clara smells like snow and antiseptic, and the spark between their hands is the one thing he cannot pretend away. But Clara kept a blood sample from a wounded animal that matches no known species, and the man she is falling for is the only one who can explain it. When the pack law forbids claiming a human witness, Elias must choose between the silence that keeps his pack safe and the truth that could cost him everything.

Place and Time: Telluride, Colorado, and the surrounding Uncompahgre National Forest, in the present day, 2023.