Riptide

A fennec fox who built a door he could close. Nico left sixty people who loved him because the love was the wrong shape. Now he has a tiny house, a network security job, eighteen feet of counter space, and a system for everything. The system works. He's not broken. He's not lonely. He's calibrated.A wolf who forgot how to come back. Jonah McCoy ran six weeks through winter to reach a rumor: two alphas in Rhode Island who got out. What he found was a swamp, a stone wall, and a four-pound fox who left food at a distance and didn't ask for anything. The wolf stayed. The man wasn't ready.A bond that doesn't rush. Nico knows how to wait. He's been waiting his whole life. Jonah can't be fixed on anyone's schedule, not the military's and not his pack's. Neither of them knows how to ask for anything. Both of them keep showing up anyway. But the thing following Jonah out of the Yukon isn't done looking.The slowest slow burn. Fated mates. No sex on the page. Found family. A four-pound fox and the wolf who followed him home.Book Three of Common Ground. Complete romance. HEA.