by K. Webster
Part of Kingdom of Wolves, book 5
First published 2021
On Beacon Island, a powerful alpha wolf finds a boy left for dead: bloody, broken, barely alive. He takes the boy in, heals him, and raises him to be fierce and loyal. For years, the arrangement holds. Then the boy grows up, and everything shifts. The young man the alpha thought he knew, a quiet, compliant beta, turns out to carry a deep, burning rage. When a hostile pack moves against their territory, that rage finds a target. He wants justice. He wants revenge. He is willing to walk away from the pack to get it. The alpha refuses to release him. He pulls the young man back every time he tries to leave, holds him close, keeps him near. What starts as a contest of wills becomes something neither of them planned. The alpha, the most formidable wolf on the island, discovers he has a weakness after all. This standalone MM age-gap shifter romance is set in the Kingdom of Wolves world but requires no knowledge of the other books in the collection. It tells a complete story and ends with a happily ever after.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, adult-fiction, fantasy-romance, paranormal-romance
Vibes: dark, emotional, intense, intimate, possessive, slow-burn
Tropes: age-gap-romance, forced-proximity, found-family, power-dynamics, protective-love
Setting: Beacon Island, Kingdom of Wolves
258 pages · Paperback · Independently published
Content warnings: abuse, violence