Slack Tide

A bear who was never his own. Seventeen years conscripted. Chipped. Deployed. When his best friend's wife is killed, Caleb Holt comes home to hold a broken family together - and catches a scent at the funeral that changes everything.A fox who refuses to be owned. Rowan MacLeod walked away from old money, an arranged mating, and a man who still considers him unfinished business. Five years in Rhode Island. No pack. No mate. A law career built on no one else's terms.A bond that doesn't wait for permission. Custody paperwork. Kids' lunches. Three grieving children. And a pull neither of them can explain.Slow burn. Fated mates. Found family. Three kids who just need someone to stay.Book One of Common Ground. Complete romance. HEA.Content notes: Off-page character deaths (vehicular accident), grief and mourning, references to military conscription. No on-page violence, no harm to children, no cliffhanger. Complete romance with a guaranteed HEA.

Pages: 331, Paperback, Independently published