Life at the Jarvela farm hobbles on when the new year rolls in. Losing his wife and co-alpha in the storm of the decade emotionally paralyzed Sean, though he tries to cope and attempts to pick up the pieces with their children. Rider, another alpha, could give him the love and comfort he needs, but Sean is too depressed to recognize the possibility of having a male partner, and he goes into mental tailspin.<br><br>To safeguard his own heart, Rider makes the hard decision to leave for a while, and Sean turns his energy and sadness into working on the neighboring Metsala farm with the other members of their farm family. But Sean isn’t really getting better, and that won’t change until he can let his wolf out again. If he doesn’t, he might lose his sanity too.

Howl Sweet Howl

Rider went for a walk the next day. It was in his human form, because animal tracks were harder to explain on the snowy road and frankly he wasn’t in the mood for battling the forest where even his large wolf would be in danger of drowning in the snow.


There was a lot of it, not that it was that foreign to Rider. He’d lived in all kinds of places in the US, from the heat of the desert to the mountains to the pacific rainforest. While Rider liked a cool environment, maybe a little snow as well for a few months every year, he had found he quite liked Finland too.


Chapter 9