Unwilling Wolf by T.S. Joyce

Eliza Flemm is back in Rockdale to chase an old life she has been dreaming about since her mother took her away from this place years ago. She is grown now, and raised softly in Society, but her adventurous spirit has always longed for the chaos of the Wild West again. She wants to reconnect with her father, of course, but she also has harbored a secret affection for Garret Shaw—the son of a rancher, and someone who was good down to his very bones back when she knew him as a child. Whatever she remembers of ranch life from her childhood memories, well, nothing is the same anymore. Garret Shaw’s eyes don’t look human, and the snarl in his chest says something terrible has happened to the friend she remembers. He is nothing like the kind boy she used to know, and now he is leading a Pack of people she doesn’t understand. The more she is immersed into this feral shifter world, the more she questions if she should’ve ever come back here at all. But with time comes understanding, and slowly she is building an unbreakable bond to the life, the creatures, and the people here in this Turn of the Century town. She has stumbled right into the middle of a war that has been brewing for decades, and now she will have to get her hands dirty and learn to fight back, or slink back to her cushioned life in Society. All while falling hopelessly in love with a werewolf who seems angry she even exists.

Garret Shaw is angry all the time. He’s trying to do his best by his Pack, but a territory war has been building, and the arrival of Eliza destroys the plan he’d put in place for peace. She’s soft and fragile and bleeds easily, and now she is his wife. Why? Not because he chose her. He marries that irritating woman as a favor to a friend and now he’s saddled with the red-haired firecracker for as long as it takes her to run away back to her soft life in Boston. She’s human, and too mouthy for her own good, and that’s a bad combination out in the wilds of Texas where werewolves rule the territory. He’s Alpha here, and has a hundred fires to put out on any given week, and adding a sassy, fragile human to his Pack isn’t something he ever wanted. And to top it off? She’s gorgeous. Of course she is. Her stunning beauty makes it all the more irritating as he tries to keep his distance. And he’s noticing she is working hard and learning her way around his ranch. And now? His wolf is paying attention to her. He can’t afford to get attached to a soft human who will either perish, or run away. He has a territory war to focus on, and a Pack to keep fed, and no one could ever find a more unwilling husband than he…at least that’s what he’s telling himself.