The Wolf's Territory (Pine Ridge Shifters #3)

She came to Pine Ridge to survey land marked for development. The land had been waiting for her to listen. So had the white wolf watching from the ridge.

Claire Dunn built her career on data — degrees, calibrated instruments, the kind of reputation that lets a woman work alone in the field and be taken seriously.A Cascade Valley Development contract sends her to a quiet pocket of the Cascade foothills for what should be a clean three-week job.Survey the site. File the report. Move on.

But the land here doesn’t care what her instruments say.

Claire’s grandmother used to tell her to listen to what her hands say.And when her palm touches the rock at site seven, her hands say something she’s been refusing to hear since she was a child.The wildlife isn’t what it should be. And the quiet, watchful man who keeps finding reasons to be at her trailhead isn’t there by accident.

Jackson Hale runs security for a sanctuary that depends on no one knowing it exists.A ghost-white wolf can’t hide, and he’s spent his life learning to be invisible anyway.He’s watched a geologist do her job from a safe distance for four months, telling himself it was a threat assessment.His wolf has been telling him otherwise.

When Cascade Valley moves to take the land Pine Ridge has been bracing to protect, Claire has to decide what kind of woman her grandmother raised. Jackson has to decide whether the cover that’s kept his people safe matters more than the woman his wolf chose before he was ready.

The land knows what it is. Claire is starting to. And the wolf isn’t going anywhere.

The Wolf’s Territory is a steamy paranormal shifter romance featuring a silent-pining wolf who’s been watching from the trees, a heroine coming into a gift her grandmother left in her hands, and a fated mate bond neither of them planned for.Book 3 in the Pine Ridge Pack series. Complete standalone with HEA and the found family Pine Ridge readers know and love.