Under The Wither Moon

Seventeen-year-old Payton Matthews is starting over with a new home, a new school, a new running team, and a new pack. When her father's job transfers the Matthews family to Colorado, Payton leaves behind the friends and life she has always known and begins the difficult process of finding her place in Wither Moon.

For Payton, it is simply where her family is learning to call home. For Dave Bentley, her arrival changes everything.

At twenty-two, Dave is a police officer, Wither Moon's Beta, and a man who thought fate had already made its decision about his future. Years after being rejected by his first mate, even his wolf, Alexander, has fallen silent.

Then Payton arrives, and Alexander speaks for the first time in years.

Mate.

There is only one problem. Payton is seventeen.

She cannot recognize the bond yet, and Dave cannot tell her what he knows. Until she turns eighteen, he cannot reveal the bond, court her, or influence a choice that must one day be hers to make. So Dave does the only thing he can. He waits.

As the Matthews family settles into Wither Moon, new friendships form, old relationships are tested, and the unfamiliar pack slowly begins to feel like home. But when an attack leaves Payton facing a long recovery, the life she was just beginning to build changes again. Running becomes something she must reclaim one careful step at a time, while the people around her do everything they can to help her move forward.

All the while, one truth remains hidden from her.

Dave knows exactly what she is to him.

Her eighteenth birthday is getting closer, and when Payton is finally able to recognize the bond for herself, the secret he has carried since the day she arrived will no longer be his alone.

Under the Wither Moon, a new beginning becomes something far greater than any of them expected: a home, a family, and bonds powerful enough to change everything.