Max & Shelly (Copper Creek Pack #0.5)

What’s the biggest favor you can ask a loner alpha? To live indefinitely in another alpha’s territory in order to watch over a widow and a baby, so your friend can keep his promise.

Shelly and Fiona met in a group children's home when they were ten and have been best friends ever since. Two weeks after the birth of their daughter Emma Grace, Fiona’s husband David dies while fighting in Afghanistan. Worried about her friend, Shelly moves in with Fiona to help with Emma Grace and to help her friend cope with the devastating loss and grief.

When Kell, an enforcer for Copper Creek Pack and David's best friend, has to return to Texas, he reaches out to his friend Max for help. He needs Max to help him keep his promise to David and watch over David's girls in his absence. Former Force Recon Marine Max Granger is an alpha lion shifter without a pride. Max is a loner and prefers to keep it that way. However, when Kell calls asking for a favor, he can't say no. Max could never turn his back on his only friend. Max agrees to put his loner lifestyle on hold and move to New Orleans in order to watch over a fallen brother in arms’ widow and infant daughter.

When Max agreed to the 'not so small' favor, he had no idea it would lead him to his destiny. A too sweet, too tiny, too shy, too innocent, human mate named Shelly. Only Fates with a sick sense of humor and twisted logic would pick a sweet, shy virgin for a socially awkward prideless alpha.