The Alpha I Inherited

“Nora Calloway has spent thirty years believing she is an ordinary human being-a diner cook in a small West Virginia coal town, a widow who never asked questions about her husband's strange family. Then a wolf the size of a pony walks into her diner at dawn, shifts into her dead husband's cousin, and tells her she has inherited a pack. The Blackridge Pack is dying, and its only hope is Nora, a late-blooming wolf who has never shifted. The neighboring Alpha, Wade, offers to help her find the mineral spring that keeps the pack alive-but his help comes at a price. Nora does not trust the bond, does not trust Wade, and does not trust the wolf she has never met inside her own skin. But as the Gamma tightens his grip on the valley, she must decide whether to sell the land and run, or claim a power she never wanted. Place and Time: The Blackridge Pack territory in the remote coal-mining valleys of southern West Virginia, 1949.”