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Josephine "Joss" Calloway has one rule left after three years on the run: trust nothing with teeth.
She rides into Dead Man's Gulch looking for nothing but a place to disappear - instead, she rides straight into an ambush, and out of the smoke comes something that isn't fully man, and isn't fully wolf either.
Rourke Sinclair is the last thing anyone expects a lawless frontier town's most feared rancher to be: the secret Alpha of the last wolf pack in the territory. The moment his hand closes over hers, his wolf does something it hasn't done in nine years. It recognizes her. Out loud. As mate.
There's just one problem. Pack law forbids an Alpha from claiming an outsider - especially one with a bounty on her head and a grieving father's fortune paying men to hunt her down. And somewhere north of the border, a rival Alpha is already circling, looking for exactly the excuse Rourke just handed him.
Joss has spent her life running from men who wanted to own her. Rourke has spent nine years making sure nothing in his territory could be used against him. Neither of them planned on a bond that doesn't ask permission - or a war that's coming for both of them whether they're ready or not.
The moon is climbing toward full. And in Dead Man's Gulch, some claims are worth dying for.