Edge of the Woods

<p><em>Fangs don't make a monster but they sure do help.</em><br><br>Long ago the title of pack alpha was won by tooth and claw a contest of strength and violence. But Haley Fern is a modern werewolf and she was voted alpha in a fair election after her mother retired from the position. Her small rural Montana pack trusts her to keep them safe--from the wilds every full moon from territory disputes with their vampire neighbors and from outsides who might discover that the town's werewolf folktales have their basis in reality--and she takes her job seriously.<br><br>So it's a bad day when a well-meaning outsider takes the job as her town's law enforcement liaison and a worse one when he shows up to introduce himself with a wounded teenager in tow. Deputy Leland Sommers doesn't know the bite wounds are turning the boy into a werewolf but Haley does and that means she has lawbreakers on her land. And when a dead body turns up on the pack's nature preserve shortly thereafter Deputy Sommers gets involved. Working together to find the criminals would be a lot easier if Leland knew the truth but if Haley tells him without the approval of the higher-ups it puts not only her job but also her pack and Leland's life at risk.<br><br>She can't let the interlopers' crimes go unanswered but can she protect a brand-new werewolf keep the pack's secrets and mete out justice by herself? Is it an alpha's burden to rule alone?</p><p> </p><p><em>Second Edition published 2025</em></p>