WOLFBAIT

WOLFBAIT: The Unraveling of the Brand

Elena is a neon sign in a graveyard. Fresh from the jagged, industrial grit of Akron, Ohio, eighteen-year-old Elena Blackwell expects the Pacific Northwest to be nothing more than damp cedar and suffocating silence. She is a creature of steel and smog, entirely out of place in a town that feels like an abandoned summer camp left to rot in the mist. She's prepared for the rain. She's prepared for the isolation.

She isn't prepared for Jax Vane.

Jax doesn't wear flannel, he doesn't follow the rules, and he radiates a shocking, impossible heat that defies the mountain chill. He is a "local hazard"-the kind of boy even teachers are afraid to look in the eye. When his skin touches hers, it doesn't just spark; it brands.

As the "oxygen debt" of the mountains begins to settle in, Elena finds herself starving for the furnace-like warmth Jax offers. But in a town where the treeline presses against the glass and the shadows move with a life of their own, Elena is starting to realize that she hasn't just moved to a new home.
She's stepped into a hunting ground. And after a lifetime of surviving the cold gray of the Rust Belt, she's about to find out what happens when the bait finally stops running and starts to burn.