For his twenty-fifth birthday, Alec Savage gets the gift of a lifetime -- the chance to meet his father for the very first time. What he finds upon his arrival in Washington, DC, however, is not what he expects. A smashed window. An empty house. A scrawled note with his name and a phone number on it. Panicked, he dials the number and talks to an uncle he never knew he had, one who insists Alec is in danger if he stays in the house. That’s when everything starts to get weird.<br><br>Within minutes, he’s teleported all the way to nowhere Montana, in the company of the most gorgeous guy he’s ever seen, hearing about how he’s the latest mage in the Savage line. Alec doesn’t want to believe Rowan Bouchard, but it’s hard to argue with the reality of his new snowbound location or the confirmation from the uncle who greets him. He even thinks staying on the estate while they hunt for his dad won’t be so bad if he’s got Rowan as eye candy.<br><br>Except Rowan is more than that. He’s a shifter, the most beautiful black panther Alec could imagine. And according to his Uncle Martin, he’s now Alec’s familiar too ...

Savage Estate

His first thought on the latter went straight back to the hospital, but that wasn&rsquo;t right. It wasn&rsquo;t antiseptic. It wasn&rsquo;t medicinal, either, so that wasn&rsquo;t the trigger. Nosing around the branches, Rowan found the spot where the smells were strongest and rested his face against the bark to breathe them in as closely as possible without outside interference


The best approximation was chemical. He couldn&rsquo;t put his finger on what, though. Worse, he couldn&rsquo;t shake the niggle that he should, or at the very least, determine why it seemed so familiar.


Without any other clues to offer the others, he leaped to the ground and made his way back to the house. His coat was dirty from contact with the trees, and the cold was beginning to settle in his bones. He would give himself a good tongue bath and curl up on his pillow for a while to warm up. Maybe if he wasn&rsquo;t thinking about it so hard, he&rsquo;d figure out what exactly the smell was.


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