The Wolves of Wharton

After a murder threatens to expose them, Angus Chilton leads his wolf pack across the country. When they settle in a place where he harbors bucolic childhood memories, Angus meets Hunter Bailey, a handsome human barista. Angus and Hunter are drawn together by shared trauma and similarly problematic exes. But, can Angus keep Hunter safe when his murderous, impulsive, and jealous ex catches wind of their burgeoning relationship? Conversely, can Hunter keep Angus safe from his own?

Ama Chilton is the matriarch of the Wharton wolves: unfathomably old and impossibly strong. But, she wasn’t always Angus’ packrat granny with a penchant for muumuus. After the bloody end of both World War II and her relationship, Ama Chilton abandons the Big Apple in search of what she’s never had: a wolfpack, a family.

 Returning to his hometown in Tennessee, Samuel Campbell is searching for absolution. He made a promise in Wharton to never hurt another human ever again. Coming home is the ultimate test. There are dark memories here, a trail of bodies left behind by a once-rabid wolf. In Sevierville, he discovers the hardest part of confronting his past is facing his own conscience. 

Haley Campbell is caught in a snare: longing to run wild but terrified of her secret violent urges. When she finds her grandfather’s diary in the attic, she discovers her insatiable hunger is an inherited trait. The ancient frail man who used to chain-smoke in her parents’ living room is responsible for countless unsolved murders in the 1930s and -40s. Fearful of following in his bloody footsteps—her birthright, after all—she travels to Wharton, a beachfront town, hoping to find the Alpha who may have a way of curing her hunger before someone else gets hurt.

Flora Wright never imagined she would leave Wharton, Virginia. She was practically born with the salt of the sleepy, seaside town flecking her cheeks. The sound of the waves lapping against the tetrapods was her nightly lullaby. The wolves that loped along the shoreline were her friends, her family—her pack. She dreamed of stardom beyond the towns’ limits, but anything beyond the local Miss Dogwood pageant crown seemed like a fantasy. That is, until Carver Merlotte, talent scout extraordinaire, put her on the next flight to Los Angeles. La La Land isn’t quite what she expected.

The last eighteen months have been the most tumultuous—and the most gratifying—of Hunter Bailey’s life. With Angus at his side, he thought he could endure anything, but Hunter is still reeling from losing Leigh. How is he supposed to live with himself, knowing he caused his friend's death? Hunter worries he's not as strong as his wolfish boyfriend. But what if he could be?