The Wolf Who Waited: A Hollow Ridge Novel

The woods noticed Mara Holloway long before she understood why.After inheriting her grandmother's house in Hollow Ridge, Mara wants only to build an ordinary life. But when her dog is attacked by something no animal should survive, the reclusive man locals call Crowe steps from the trees-and every creature around him retreats.Asher Hale came to Hollow Ridge to disappear. An exiled alpha carrying the cost of a catastrophe, he has spent years controlling his wolf and refusing the pack that once claimed him. Mara is everything he should avoid: human, vulnerable, and tied to a bloodline the mountain remembers.But the closer she comes, the more the boundary stirs. Old warnings surface in her grandmother's notebooks. Hidden histories return. And the bond growing between Mara and Asher becomes impossible to dismiss-even as accepting it could awaken the power Asher fears most.To protect her, he may have to become the wolf he buried. To save them both, Mara must decide whether love means looking backward-or choosing who they become next.An atmospheric, slow-burn wolf-shifter romance featuring fated mates, forbidden love, a protective exiled alpha, hidden lineage, found family, and a heroine learning to trust her own power.