The Border He Kept

“Fifteen years ago, Callum was exiled from the Cairn pack for a crime he never committed. Since then he has guarded the border cairns alone, keeping his distance and his silence, while the wolf inside him grows more feral every year. Then a scent crosses the quartz stones and changes everything. His fated mate is Isla, the new Alpha of the pack that cast him out, and the woman he has been forbidden to approach since the night her father died. Isla is fighting for her seat. Her wolf came late, her pack whispers that her bloodline is weak, and her uncle Fergus is quietly buying Council votes. She has no idea what Callum witnessed, or that his silence was bought with her life. Now the mate bond is burning, the pack is splitting, and the old lies are starting to crack. Callum must choose: keep his exile, or cross the border and tell the woman he cannot touch the truth that could save her pack and destroy them both. Place and Time: The Cairngorm forests and moorland of Scotland, in the late 1990s.”