Title: Darkness Rising
Author: Dirk Greyson
Series: Yellowstone Wolves (Book 3)
Genre: M/M, Paranormal Romance, Shifters
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: Feb 6 2017
Edition/Formats Available In: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
The last thing Tobias, alpha of the small Greenview Pack,
expects is to find a lost human asleep in his storage building. As soon as he
sets eyes on Pete, Tobias knows they are destined mates. But he cannot act on
his attraction, no matter how much he feels compelled. Exposure to the human
world could mean the end of their way of life, so he decides to help Pete get a
room until he can reunite with the tour group he separated from.
But Tobias’s disgraced half-brother, Zev, has other ideas.
He takes a liking to Pete and decides he wants what Tobias has—both his
position as pack leader and his mate. Tobias can’t let that happen, but
protecting Pete means keeping him close, which only increases the mounting
tensions between them.
Duty, protection, desire, and secrecy clash as the darkness
within Zev rises to the surface, and only Tobias can save his mate—even if he
never plans to tell Pete that’s what they are.
“Everything okay?” Tobias asked the same question each
morning and usually got the same answer.
This morning Greg lowered his head and woofed softly.
“Show me.” Tobias followed Greg under the trees they’d kept
for shade and to the thick woods that marked the edge of their settlement. He
sniffed and knew exactly what was bothering Greg. Someone had been through
here. The scent wasn’t particularly fresh, and with the storm and all the rain,
they were lucky to be able to pick up the smell at all. Still it was alarming that
someone had gotten this close to the compound. He followed Greg through the
compound and up to their storage barn, where Greg woofed again and walked away.
Tobias stayed still, sniffing and wondering what was going on.
The intruder was human.
Greg returned a few minutes later in human form, dressed and
on guard. He hated his human body. He was tall, gangly, and clumsy, knocking
things over and bumbling wherever he went. But as a wolf, he was large and
long, sleek and nimble. He stood ready as Tobias reached for the door, then
placed a hand on Tobias’s arm, and Tobias turned. “We need to tell everyone.”
Shit. The last thing a human needed to see was wolves
wandering the compound and shifting. They would probably faint, but then they’d
know their secret.
“Go tell everyone.”
Greg hurried away, and Tobias listened, hearing nothing from
inside but soft breathing. Whoever was in there was asleep, or at least seemed
to be. The window next to the door was fogged over, so the human had been there
a while.
When Greg returned, Tobias quietly opened the door.
A blond head was poking out from under a tarp being used as
a blanket. Tobias saw and smelled wet clothes hanging over a length of wood.
Over all of the smells was a woodsy scent of home that went right to his core.
“What’s wrong with you?” Greg asked. “You’re flushed and….”
Greg turned to the sleeping man before once again looking at Tobias. “Don’t
even think about it.” His voice was so soft, only someone with wolf hearing
could pick up the words.
Whipping around to Greg, Tobias stared, his jaw set and gaze
intensifying. He couldn’t use his alpha voice or he’d startle the young man,
but he could damn well let Greg know he was stepping over the line. Once Greg
tilted his head in submission, Tobias turned back to the sleeping man and his
heavenly scent.
He wanted to step inside the storage barn, lock the door and
everyone outside, strip down, slip under that tarp, and take the smaller man
into his arms. Tobias wanted him, and when Greg stepped past Tobias into the
barn, he tugged Greg back behind him. Never had he laid eyes on someone and
seen the rest of his life spread out in front of him. He knew he was completely
and totally fucked from one end to the other. He had to be as cool and calm as
possible, even though he was fairly sure Greg was aware his heart was pumping a
mile a minute and he was aroused as all hell.
“Go see to the others and make sure they’re okay.” Though he
heard Greg step away and huff, he didn’t take eyes off the adorable man as he
stepped inside and walked to where he was sleeping. Tobias wasn’t quite sure
how to wake him because he didn’t want to shock the guy. He’d obviously been
caught in the storm and sought shelter here.
What were the chances that Tobias would find his mate in his
own storage building?
“Hello,” he said softly. “It’s time for you to wake up.”
The man jerked upright and nearly slipped as he jumped to
his feet. “I wasn’t going to take anything. I was just in the storm and needed
someplace dry. I’ll get my stuff and be gone in a few minutes.” He was already
racing to grab his clothes and shove them in his still-wet pack.
Tobias held out his hands. “Slow down. I’m not going to hurt
you or anything. I know the storm was bad last night. But how did you end up
here?” It wasn’t as though they were close to anything. The only way into their
community was a two-track road that required a truck to traverse, and his pack
liked it that way.
“I was taking a hiking tour and stopped to look at some
flowers, and they left me. I thought I went back to the path, but I got lost
and night fell. And then I tried to build a fire, got attacked by a cougar, the
rain doused my fire, and I was going to try to get a cell signal, and somehow I
stumbled onto your shed here, and it was dry, so…. Like I said, I didn’t take
anything.” He held his pack in front of him like a shield. “I can pay if I
damaged anything, but I don’t think so. Just point me to a road or something,
and I’ll walk until I can get a signal and call someone to rescue me.”
The guy talked so very fast. It would have been adorable if
he wasn’t obviously so scared. His heart beat rapidly, and the acrid scent of
abject fear permeating the air.
Dirk is very much an outside kind
of man. He loves travel and seeing new
things. Dirk worked in corporate America
for way too long and now spends his days writing, gardening, and taking care of
the home he shares with his partner of more than two decades. He has a Master’s Degree and all the other accessories
that go with a corporate job. But he is
most proud of the stories he tells and the life he's built. Dirk lives in Pennsylvania in a century old
home and is blessed with an amazing circle of friends.
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