Stormridge Pack Series by C J Blackwood, Cora J Riley

She came to The Hollow for gin and the anatomy of a badly taxidermied owl. She didn't come for an Alpha. Mara Calloway is three weeks from her PhD defence and firmly in the business of bones, not men. Specifically not a man who materialises at her bar stool at midnight, radiates controlled menace, and tells her she's dangerous before she's said anything particularly dangerous. She's a scientist. She deals in evidence. She would like to go back to her thesis... moreShe came to The Hollow for gin and the anatomy of a badly taxidermied owl. She didn't come for an Alpha. Mara Calloway is three weeks from her PhD defence and firmly in the business of bones, not men. Specifically not a man who materialises at her bar stool at midnight, radiates controlled menace, and tells her she's dangerous before she's said anything particularly dangerous. She's a scientist. She deals in evidence. She would like to go back to her thesis. Declan Ashford is Alpha of the Stormridge Pack, eight years into a position he was built for, and completely unprepared for a woman who argues the structural deficiency of taxidermied owls with the same focus she brings to everything else. For wolves, the mate bond doesn't negotiate. It just knows. And the wolf has known since the moment she walked through the door. He tells her. Because she deserves to choose with full information. What follows is a slow burn built on honest conversations, a territorial crisis that Mara solves with Bronze Age chieftain logic, and the specific problem of falling for an Alpha when you've got a methodology chapter to finish first. Alpha's Claim is a full-length wolf shifter romance with a fated mates bond, dual POV, explicit heat, and a heroine who catalogues her feelings before she admits to having them. less

He's been watching over everyone for nine years. No one's been watching over him. Riordan has been the Stormridge Pack's Beta since before he can remember being anything else. He reads people like weather systems, manages threats before they become problems, and has built his entire world around the function. He doesn't have a blind spot. Cait told him he did. He's been thinking about it for four months... moreHe's been watching over everyone for nine years. No one's been watching over him. Riordan has been the Stormridge Pack's Beta since before he can remember being anything else. He reads people like weather systems, manages threats before they become problems, and has built his entire world around the function. He doesn't have a blind spot. Cait told him he did. He's been thinking about it for four months. Neve Callahan is a zooarchaeologist who has been studying the boundary between humans and animals for twelve years without knowing she was building toward something. When Mara invites her to the packhouse for a working session on their joint paper, she walks into a kitchen, reads the room before she speaks, and meets a Beta who reads people the way she reads sites. He sees her immediately. She lets him look. Neither of them does anything about it for three weeks, which is the most restrained either of them has been about anything interesting. The Beta's Mark is the second book in the Stormridge Pack Series. It is a standalone romance with a complete love story, featuring the pack Beta and a human researcher whose twelve years of work on threshold spaces has been preparing her, without her knowledge, for exactly this. Dual POV. Fated mates bond. Slow build. Explicit heat. A joint academic paper that turns out to be about both of them. And a pack group chat with nineteen members that reads a zooarchaeology paper before nine AM on a Tuesday. less

She has been keeping this pack safe for eight years. Nobody has been keeping her. Cait Malone is Stormridge's enforcer — the one who watches every edge, holds every vulnerability, runs the threat assessment so no one else has to. The function is her. She is the function. Eight years and she has never once let anything past her own perimeter. Then Declan needs a vet. A real vet, one who can be trusted with what the pack is... moreShe has been keeping this pack safe for eight years. Nobody has been keeping her. Cait Malone is Stormridge's enforcer — the one who watches every edge, holds every vulnerability, runs the threat assessment so no one else has to. The function is her. She is the function. Eight years and she has never once let anything past her own perimeter. Then Declan needs a vet. A real vet, one who can be trusted with what the pack is. And the only candidate comes with a phone call that produces a laugh at exactly the wrong moment, and a quality Cait catalogues immediately as: *someone who earns things. *. Dr. Finn Rafferty is a large animal vet with good diagnostic instincts, an extraordinary amount of patience, and absolutely no idea — for several weeks — that his new client population shifts into wolves on monthly run nights. He finds this out gradually. He finds it interesting. He reorganises his clinic. What follows is four months of Thursday appointments, Saturday packhouse visits, a fractured radius that heals in eleven days, a surveillance situation resolved at seven AM, and the slow careful building of something neither of them names until it's simply true. The Enforcer's Bond is the third and final book in the Stormridge Pack Series. It is a standalone romance featuring the pack enforcer and a vet who was patient for exactly as long as she needed him to be. Dual POV, fated mates bond, explicit heat, and a fat grey cat named Gerald who is definitely not wolf adjacent. less