Can men who each bridge two worlds make a life together?<br><br>Blaze Canis is doing what he loves best. As a shooting range instructor just outside Yellowstone National Park, the former Navy SEAL sniper is still handling firearms. When Shoshoni native Logan Rider walks into his class one morning, the attraction each man feels for the other is sudden, almost mystical. Since Blaze’s teammates never knew he was gay, let alone a werewolf, he’s confident in hiding his wolf nature from Logan, too.<br><br>But will keeping his secret work, or will it blow up in Blaze’s face as his relationship with the American native deepens?

Awakening the Alpha

The rumble of male voices as they kibitzed and laughed at their task reminded Blaze how much he missed the camaraderie among his former counterterrorism teammates. That life was over now he’d retired, and while this was a good thing, it didn’t erase missing his friends. There were times he felt so lonely, he thought he couldn’t stand it. He and his teammates had shared and spoken of harrowing, painful experiences they couldn’t talk—not ever talk—about with anyone else, not even lovers or spouses. You didn’t want to burden anyone else with the horrors of war.


He walked from student to student to offer help, to redirect and answer questions. Although intent on his students, he was alert, always aware with his superior hearing and vision of what was happening beyond the windows. Whenever possible and without conscious thought, he kept his back to a wall.


There were some habits so ingrained you didn’t—couldn’t—forget.


Chapter 5