The Patient Who Knew Me

“Nora has spent seven years hiding what she is. A night-shift nurse in a small Appalachian hospital, she doses herself with wolfsbane to mask her scent, raises her son Eli alone, and never asks why the comatose patient in room 7 smells like the wolf who killed her husband. Then one night at 3 a.m. his eyes open, his hand closes around her wrist, and a voice in her mind says she smells like his Gamma. Caleb has been trapped between forms for seven years, kept alive by poison dripped into his IV by a brother who never wanted him to wake. The only way to free him is a mate bond completed in human form, and Nora's body answers his scent in a way she has not felt since her husband died. But Silas will burn the hospital down before he lets the true heir stand in his way, and the boy asleep in Nora's apartment carries the bloodline that can break the curse. Place and Time: The Appalachian hollows of West Virginia, present day, over one year from the first full moon of spring to the last full moon of winter.”