Fixer is out!

Today is release day for Fixer: A Hidden Wolves Prequel – available now on Amazon, Smashwords, Kobo (and Kobo Plus) and Google Play. (It seems to be hidden from Google searches but that link should work.) Other wide locations to follow.

I hope readers enjoy this tale of two wolves getting a second chance, seven years after pack laws almost destroyed them. This book stands completely alone (although if you are a reader of the series, you might spot one familiar name.)

Dustin:
Seven years ago, I murdered Wade’s younger brother, at the command of our Alpha. Wade would’ve killed me for it then, except he was younger, smaller, and a much less experienced fighter. So he ran from our pack and disappeared. What Wade didn’t know was that I lied to Alpha. His brother’s still alive. Now I’ve found Wade at last— will he give me a chance to explain, before he rips my throat out?
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excerpt:
Wade

I hadn’t slept all night. I also hadn’t left my apartment, even though my wolf battered at the inside of my head, urging me to chase Dustin down and attack him, kill him, rip him to shreds. Or to follow him and find his lair, plot and plan his utter destruction. I’d paced for hours, growling, grinding my teeth, reminding myself over and over to unclench my fists and breathe like a normal person.

Dustin Palmer. Here. Why? How?

Seeing his wolf at my window, huge paws planted on my fire escape, had sent a wave of fury through me so strong, I’d almost leaped through the glass pane to get at him. Almost ignored all the dangers of discovery to see how red his blood was. Seven years ago, I’d have done it. No risk of disaster afterward would’ve stopped me. Time had taken my red-hot anger down to something colder, something that could see the consequences, and bide my time.

How did he find me?

I’d left my first pack— our pack— when Shawn died, seven years ago. When Shawn was murdered by Dustin. Alpha had accepted that I needed to go, even if he had no clue how much I was hiding in the maelstrom of my emotions. He’d driven me to the boundaries of a neighboring pack and cut my bonds in front of their Alpha so I could join them, making sure someone else would control his problem wolf.

It’d taken me just a few months to convince my new Alpha I wanted to head to Alaska, make a whole new start as a lone wolf. My grief and anger had been poisoning the pack bonds, so he agreed. As soon as I was free, I’d run, fast and far. Bus and train, changing my name, picking up odd jobs and moving on.

I’d thought I was safe to settle here at last, five years back.

Turns out one of the rules of pack was that you were never safe.

As Dawn approached, I’d tried to plan, wondering when Dustin would return, surveying my belongings, considering what I could carry if I ran again. Thinking about how much I hated the idea of leaving this small home I’d made for myself, and all the people in the building I’d taken under my protection. Deciding… Fuck Dustin and fuck the pack, I’m not running. I’d die here in my own space, if it came down to that.

A deep, lonely void in my head wished Dustin was still a wolf I could trust. I ached at the long absence inside me of bonds, of packmates and the brotherhood of wolves. A fake brotherhood that discards you as soon as you step out of line. I knew the darkness underlying “pack”, and yet, from the moment my second Alpha cut my bonds to him and my packmates, the empty places in my head had ached with loneliness. That loss had stayed with me through all the intervening years.

Though never as badly as the loss of my brother.

Fuck Dustin! Goddamn fuck Dustin, and not in a good way. I laughed bitterly at the ridiculous thought that there was a good way. Kill or be killed, now. Somehow, from the moment the man I’d admired had turned into my worst enemy, I’d known this time would come. Odds were I’d be the one bleeding out on the floor, but perhaps I could make him sorry before I died…

Read about their first meeting after 7 years in Fixer: A Hidden Wolves Prequel –
Universal link: https://books2read.com/Fixer-Kaje