Neighboring Midlife Wolf

A steamy paranormal shifter short story romance

I thought moving here would keep my family safe.
But the danger we left behind has nothing on the darkness in these woods.
After a messy divorce and years of putting my career before my kids, I was desperate for a fresh start.

A quiet cabin in the Vermont wilderness seemed like the perfect place to rebuild what we’d lost.
But the peace I was hoping for didn’t last long.
It started with the howls at night.
The claw marks on the trees.
The eerie sense that something—or someone—was watching us.

Then I met Jack Whitman.
Tall, rugged, with piercing blue eyes and a beard that makes my knees weak.
My neighbor.
A forest ranger with secrets as vast as the woods he protects.
Jack says he wants to keep us safe.
And when he looks at me like I’m the only person who matters, I almost believe him.

But the deeper I fall, the more I realize…
He’s part of the danger.
And the only way to survive is to trust him.
Even if it costs me everything.