How I Met My Mate

Cole Ward doesn't hate humans. He just hates this human — the reporter who sent the human police swarming onto pack territory with silver bullets loaded. Now his brother's dumped her in his lap for a week, and Cole's supposed to distract her from digging up pack secrets with small-town charm and a farmer's market tour.

Instead, one look and his wolf starts planning their wedding.

Alexis Monroe knows exactly what Moonstone is doing — throwing their hottest bodyguard at her so she'll forget she's here to dig up dirt. That's fine, she can multitask. She can drool over the lumberjack shoulders and find the story.

What she can't do is explain why standing next to him feels like coming home to a house she's never lived in.

But Cedar Run has bigger problems than one nosy journalist. There's a secret buried in pack land that could shatter the shifter-human truce for good — and if Alexis prints a single word of it before Cole can stop her, the whole thing goes up in flames. Cole has one week to keep her close, keep her quiet, and keep himself from claiming a woman who might ruin everything he's sworn to protect.

Too bad his heart already RSVP'd yes.