Amari Stone

He was nineteen when a wolf bit him on a Montana trail and left him to bleed out in the dirt. An old alpha found him, taught him to lead, and when she died he took the pack, twelve souls bound to land they cannot leave for more than three days without weakening. He runs a timber operation from a lodge high in the Rockies, manages the trust that keeps their territory safe, and has buried three of his own. The woman he loved at twenty-three saw him shift and never came back. He tells himself he wants someone who chooses him freely, but the wolf has already chosen, and he is tired of waiting.