Ruined by the Wild

She came to study wolves. She never expected to be claimed by one.

Wildlife biologist Dr. Sage Winters has dedicated her career to protecting wolves in the Cascade Mountains. When a string of brutal cattle killings threatens to turn public opinion against the packs she's sworn to defend, Sage ventures deep into forbidden territory to find answers. What she discovers isn't the natural predator she expected—it's something far more dangerous.

A wolf with eyes like molten gold. A creature too large, too intelligent, too aware to be anything nature intended. And when their gazes lock across a twilight meadow, Sage feels recognition slam through her like lightning—primal, impossible, and absolutely undeniable.

Kael Thornwood has spent five years keeping his distance from humans, hiding his dual nature from a world that would destroy him if they knew the truth. As Alpha of the shadow pack that prowls the wilderness between civilization and myth, his duty is clear: protect his people, maintain the veil, and never—ever—let a human get close enough to see what he really is.

Then a stubborn scientist with wild curls and fearless eyes stumbles into his territory, and every rule he's lived by shatters. She's his mate. The one soul meant for him across lifetimes. And she has no idea that the wolves she's trying to save are something far more complicated than endangered wildlife.

Now someone is slaughtering livestock and leaving evidence that points straight to Kael's pack, threatening to expose secrets that have been guarded for generations. Sage is caught in the crossfire—hunted by those who want her silenced, drawn to a man who shifts between beast and human, trapped between the science she trusts and the impossible truth her heart can't deny.

As conspiracy unravels and danger closes in, Kael must choose between protecting his pack's existence and claiming the mate who could destroy them all. Sage must decide whether to trust the evidence or the wild, devastating pull toward a man whose very existence rewrites everything she thought she knew about the world.

In the wilderness, there are no half-measures. No safe choices. Only the raw truth of what you'll sacrifice for the one you can't live without.