MARKED Coldwater Wolves, Book One Here's the thing about fate: it doesn't ask permission.Emma Cross had made peace with being alone. Romance never stuck. Friendships fizzled. Her life was a beautiful disaster of cancelled plans and chaotic energy that most people couldn't handle for long. So she'd stopped trying. Moved to a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Quiet clinic. Fresh start. Just her — and that was fine.She wasn't lonely. She was *realistic*.The plan didn't account for the two men who crash through her door one night — one dying, one desperate — or the impossible thing she witnesses when her patient transforms from man to wolf on her operating table.Werewolves are real. There's a whole pack of them in the mountains above town. And their Alpha has just declared that Emma belongs to him.Apparently, that's the same thing as love.Callum Voss has spent his life preparing to lead the Coldwater Pack. He's controlled. Strategic. Patient. He's also completely unprepared for the human woman who saves his best friend's life and then has the audacity to demand he treat her like a person instead of a problem to be handled.The mate bond between them is undeniable — a pull neither can resist. Callum knows she's his. Emma isn't sure she wants to be anyone's.But someone has betrayed the pack, and the attack that brought Emma into their world was only the beginning. As the danger escalates, she'll have to decide what she's willing to risk: her independence, her old life, her heart.She didn't choose this. But she's starting to want it.*Marked is a steamy paranormal romance featuring a possessive Alpha, a heroine who won't back down, and a fated mate bond that won't be denied. First in the Coldwater Wolves series.*---**Genre:** Paranormal Romance**Series:** Coldwater Wolves**Book One:** Marked**Target Audience:** Female**Keywords/Tags:**- Shifter romance- Werewolf romance- Fated mates- Alpha hero- Possessive alpha- Mate bond- Pack dynamics- Paranormal romance- Strong heroine- Slow burn