Cole Alexios Ritcherson can’t tell a lie. The words won’t form. His jaw locks, his throat closes, and whatever convenient fiction he needed just — doesn’t come.He’s learned to work around it. Twelve years in Special Forces taught him that silence is its own kind of answer, and most people don’t push when a man built like a weapon tells them he’d rather not say.But silence won’t explain the scars he brought home from his last deployment. It won’t explain why cameras glitch around him, why a shadow that isn’t his follows him through doorways, or why something is waking up in his blood that the seven fae courts are very, very interested in.Half fae. Half werewolf. A chimera — iron and ambrosia running through the same veins, two natures that should destroy each other but don’t. He doesn’t know this yet.What he knows is the family that chose him: a coyote-shifter sister who trusts him with her life, an uncle who hunts monsters between batches of cookies, and a unit of operators who’ve seen what he can do and kept him anyway. What he knows is the Alpha werewolf whose wolf has already decided he belongs to her, and the queen of the Twilight Court who’s been watching him for over a century.The iron in his veins should kill him.It doesn’t.Found family. Competent protagonists. Slow-burn romance with teeth. Action with consequences.Updates:Wednesday / Friday.
