Tracy E. Crider
When Elle Rowan aged out of foster care, she thought she’d finally escaped hell. Her first real adult relationship proved her wrong.
Now she’s running from her abusive ex, fleeing across the country to the Pacific Northwest in hopes of disappearing. But within days of arriving, she’s attacked — bitten by a stranger she tried to help. Six months later, the wound still burns. Fevers rage through her. Her senses are sharpening to the point of pain. And the man who bit her won’t leave her alone.
Texts. Notes. Gifts. Threats.
Elle is cracking. She doesn’t know what’s happening to her. She only knows she’s becoming something she doesn’t recognize… and she’s always on edge.
Across the country, Gabriel Duval hears her call.
A Cajun tracker from the Louisiana bayou, Gabriel left everything behind the moment the mate bond awakened. For six months he’s followed an instinct he doesn’t understand, chasing a woman he’s never met — a woman whose desperation is awakening the Alpha buried inside him.
In a world where fated bonds are rare and bites kill more often than they create, two broken souls are being pulled together by a force stronger than either of them. Some scars run soul-deep, and some predators don’t let go easily.
In the darkest hour, survival isn’t enough.
Sometimes you have to become the monster… to become the sanctuary.
A dark werewolf thriller about desperation, redemption, and the terrifying strength found in choosing to trust again.
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