Christmas Wolf (Black Mesa Wolves Holiday Bundle): Black Mesa Wolves, #5

By J.K. Harper

USA Today Bestselling Author J.K. Harper brings you three heartwarming & sexy Black Mesa Wolves holiday stories in one collection!

Christmas Wolf | Solstice Wolf | New Year Wolf

"Such a romantic love story... The emotion is raw, it's real. I cried."

CHRISTMAS WOLF
"This is a beautiful Christmas story. ... Mason and Ana's story will touch your heart."

Mason Pearce never felt passionately about anything, until he met beautiful, sexy Ana. She stirred up his wild side and marked his heart as hers--then left him without explanation. When he runs into her during the holidays, he knows one thing for certain: He won't let her go again. No matter what it might cost him.

When omega wolf Ana Lyall walked away from her forbidden human soulmate, it shattered her heart. But wolf shifters and humans can't mix, and she won't have Mason's blood on her hands. Nothing can entice her back to him--unless some wild Christmas magic can make their season bright after all.

SOLSTICE WOLF
"A fantastic holiday conclusion that melts the heart. This is a great series."

Once upon a time, wolf shifter Lia Woolsey fell in love. Connor is the mate of her heart, body, and soul. But then she's offered a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity, one she can't turn down. Not even if it means leaving behind the only man she ever has loved.

Connor Lowe's place in the Black Mesa Wolf Pack is secure, his deeply committed work as a doctor fills his days, and his mate, Lia, lights up his entire life. He's the world's happiest wolf--but his mate isn't. And he loves her too much to stop her from leaving to follow her own dreams.

As the frozen longest night of the year approaches, Connor and Lia face an impossible choice...the kind only winter solstice magic might be able to fix before it's too late.

NEW YEAR WOLF
"5 GOLD SNOWFLAKES! The communication between wolf & human is hilarious! That is actually one of my favorite parts of shifter stories but no one does it as PAWFECTLY as J.K.!"

With devoted mate Rielle still his most ardent champion, down and out wolf shifter Caleb Bardou is slowly piecing back together his busted up life. He's a fighter at heart--but when he was justifiably stripped of his Pack Guardian status, it about knocked him out cold.

Now he gives his all to a hot new business training other shifters for the fight ring. He's back in the game and looking for a big win, his sexy mate at his side all the way. Then an old enemy shows up, threatening to sucker punch Caleb and Rielle's future. Can Caleb switch up his strategy in time to make it a sparkling, magical new year for them after all?
 

Each story stands alone in the Black Mesa world, although series fans will enjoy revisiting some characters they already know!

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.K. Harper
• Release date: Jan 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386262343

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Christmas Wolf

Christmas Wolf

A Black Mesa Wolves Holiday Bundle

J.K. Harper

Sable Moon Books

Contents

About This Holiday Bundle

Solstice Wolf

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Christmas Wolf

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

New Year Wolf

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Sneak Peek! Protector Wolf

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About J.K.

CHRISTMAS WOLF HOLIDAY BUNDLE

Three Black Mesa Wolves Holiday Tales

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Solstice Wolf | Christmas Wolf | New Year Wolf

SOLSTICE WOLF

Once upon a time, wolf shifter Lia Woolsey fell in love. More specifically, she met her mate and settled down with him in a small town far from the bustling big city she's always known. But she never thought she'd be the kind of woman to give up everything for a man--not even Connor, the mate of her heart, soul, and body. Five years later, she's been offered a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity she can't turn down. Not even if it means leaving Connor behind and shattering her own heart.

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Connor Lowe has everything a wolf shifter could want. His place in the Black Mesa Wolf Pack is secure, his deeply committed work as a doctor running a low-income medical clinic fills his days, and his mate, Lia, lights up his entire life. He's the world's happiest wolf--but his mate isn't. And he loves her too much to stop her from leaving to follow her own bliss, even though he knows his days will darken into nothingness each moment she is away from him.

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As the frozen longest night of the year approaches, Connor and Lia face an impossible choice...the kind only winter solstice magic might be able to fix before it's too late.

CHRISTMAS WOLF

Omega wolf Ana Lyall knows she is essential to the Black Mesa Wolf Pack, despite being its lowest-ranking member. She knows her place, and she's content in it--until she met Mason Pearce and he opened her heart. His seductive touch roused her to possessive heights of ecstasy she'd never before felt, and he believes in her more than anyone ever has. But Mason is human and therefore forbidden. Claiming him as her mate would mean his death. Even though it shredded her heart, she walked away and didn't look back.

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Mason Pearce never felt passionately about anything--until he met Ana. She stirred up his wild side and marked his heart as hers. When she inexplicably dumped him, he knew there was more to it than she was telling him. He's tried almost everything to get her back, with no luck. But then he runs into her during the holidays, and seeing her again clarifies one truth: He won't let her go again. No matter what it might cost him.

NEW YEAR WOLF

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With devoted mate Rielle still his most ardent champion, down and out wolf shifter Caleb Bardou is slowly piecing back together his busted up life. He's a fighter at heart—but when he was justifiably stripped of his Pack Guardian status, it about knocked him out cold.

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Now he gives his all to a hot new business training other shifters for the fight ring. He's back in the game and looking for a big win, his sexy mate at his side all the way. Then an old enemy shows up in the final round and threatens to sucker punch Caleb and Rielle's future. It might finally be time for Caleb to show the world what he's really made of...and make it a happy new year after all.

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*author's note: New Year Wolf features Caleb & Rielle, the characters from Hunting Wolf (Black Mesa Wolves #3). It is best read after Wild Wolf (Black Mesa Wolves #4), although that is not strictly necessary in order to enjoy this holiday tale.

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CHRISTMAS WOLF | SOLSTICE WOLF | NEW YEAR WOLF

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Copyright © 2018 by J.K. Harper

First electronic publication: November 2015

J.K. Harper

www.jkharper.com

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Cover by Resplendent Media

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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the copyright owner except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Solstice Wolf

Dedication

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For those who believe in the magical power of love to shine brightly even on the longest, darkest night of the year

1

Huge, beautiful flakes of snow drifted down from the sky to add yet another layer of snow to the already covered street outside Connor Lowe's office window. For a long moment, he stared out at the pretty scene, which showed early holiday shoppers walking along the storefronts, well bundled against the weather. Colorful lights twinkled in many of the stores and giant Christmas tree ornaments decorated the lampposts. It was the quintessential small town winter scene, postcard perfect.

He saw not a single bit of it.

Instead, his mind was picturing a cool, tall blonde with the longest legs imaginable, gorgeous gray eyes that had the depths of the sky in them, the sharpest mind he knew, and a huge yet rare smile that never failed to delight him. His wolf rumbled with approval as he pictured his mate. A strong note of worry underlaid it, though, and his tail wavered at half mast.

Yeah, Connor muttered. Yeah.

A short knock on his door snapped his attention back to where he really was. Hey, doc, said Trevor, his fellow doctor, poking his head around the door with a frazzled look. Trevor also doubled as his main clinic assistant on days like today when their receptionist had called in absent because she had a sick kid. Your two o'clock just got here, your one-thirty is still waiting to be seen, and we also just had three new walk-ins. One of them's a three-month-old with a really bad cough and a high temp, he added with a concerned frown. I'm pretty sure you need to see that one first. It's the Jenkins' kid.

Connor sighed, then stood up and stretched mightily. The Jenkins were regulars at the low-income clinic Connor ran. He'd taken them under his wing, since the poor kids were barely into their twenties and already had two older kids, useless drunks and jailbirds as their own parents, and only the worst kind of minimum wage jobs to support them all. They tried hard to be good parents, but they lacked far more skills than they possessed.

Soft heart, his wolf rumbled. Mate like a lion, he added, picturing Lia's shake of her head as Connor yet again offered free medical services to the very neediest of his clients. Lia was a very good person, but she would never let her own company run as deeply into the red as Connor's struggling but very necessary little clinic was. She believed in charging for what one was worth.

You'll never get ahead like that, Connor, she often told him, although the words were always spoken as gently as she could. We'll never be able to leave town if you keep letting your patients get away with not paying. The bills are killing us as it is.

He didn't let his patients get away with just anything. He simply saw them in need and could not let them suffer the consequences of the country's half-useless medical insurance system. He also didn't want to leave Durango. This was his home, his pack's home, and besides, he could never abandon these patients. He and this clinic were the only things standing between some of them and utter financial ruin due to outrageous medical bills—or even needless death from conditions that he could and would treat for free as long as the money held out.

Which it was not going to do for much longer. Like, maybe a month or two longer.

Connor? Trevor's voice was firm. It's already almost two-thirty. We've got to get moving out there. He gestured to the small, overcrowded waiting room where all their patients waited.

Let's do it. Jenkins baby first, Connor said decisively, grabbing his clipboard and heading out with a briskness he didn't really feel. No charge.

He pictured Lia's wry expression at those words and tried as hard as he could to push her to the back of his mind for the moment, despite the heavy feeling in his stomach.

This place was the reason Lia was leaving. He was part of the reason she was finally leaving to chase her dream. And letting his heart and soul walk away was probably going to kill him, but there was nothing he could or would ever do to stop her. He'd never stand in the way of his mate's dreams, even if those dreams were about to take her so far from him he honestly wasn't sure their relationship would survive, mates or no.

His wolf growled faintly, turning his back on Connor. Sighing again, Connor headed to meet his patients and focus on his own dream.

Lia's eyes narrowed as she stared at her prey with the laser precision of the lethal hunter she was.

We would like to call the next witness to the stand, your honor, she said in cool, confident tones, although her gaze was fixed on the nervous man sitting in the witness stand. Her heart beat strong and sure beneath the fancy courtroom suit that had cost her a small fortune, especially on the small salary she got from the tiny law firm that had employed her for the past four years. Her palms were dry, as were her armpits too, thank god, and she knew not a single strand had escaped the severe chignon she'd wrestled her hair back into that morning. Her entire demeanor came across as utterly self-possessed and entirely ruthless.

Well, she wasn't known as Lia the Wolf for nothing. Her full first name, Accalia, meant she-wolf in Latin. It was a standing joke within the Black Mesa Wolf Pack that the humans who'd given her that nickname had no idea how close they were to the truth. A truth they'd never know.

Arching a single eyebrow at the slime ball seated in the stand, who she wanted to see get put away for a long time, she waited for the judge to indicate she could go on. At his nod, she lowered her voice dramatically and timed her words just right into the spellbound silence of the very full court. We call...Christina Wilson to the stand.

As she'd predicted, the entire room burst into shocked gasps and cries. The accused, the one sitting in the witness stand currently, turned white at the sound of his own wife's name. His supposedly deceased wife, on whose supposed deadness his entire case rested. Then he buried his face in one hand, rubbing the back of his neck with the other. His attorney immediately began shouting dramatic protests and asking the judge for a recess to consider this utterly astounding new turn of events.

Although she maintained her bland expression, mentally Lia was counting up the number of years in prison the slimy defendant was going to get handed to him. She'd pulled out the card up her sleeve, and it had worked like a charm.

Charm? Her wolf pictured a shiny object to play with. Lia snorted inside, though she kept her expression carefully controlled. Her wolf really wanted to get outside and play. Human law interested Lia's human side. Her wolf, not so much, although her predatory instincts were a huge asset in this line of work, especially since wolf shifters could literally sniff out lies and read a person's character much more easily and quickly than any human ever could. But Lia had always been careful to balance her two sides, especially as a wolf who'd grown up in the big city. Luckily, Denver had nearby mountains to run and hunt in, so she'd easily managed to assuage the needs of her two selves.

Here in Durango, the little mountain town nestled into the very southwestern corner of Colorado that she now called home, her wolf was thrilled with the constant, immediate access to the wilderness spreading in all directions. It provided more than ample room for running and howling and just being a wolf. But Lia's human side had grown tired of the too-small town after five years, no matter how darned cute it was. She loved Connor with all her heart, but never in her life had she imagined she'd give up her dreams for a man.

Not even the one and only mate of her heart, body, and soul.

The judge called a recess, but they all knew it was over. Lia was going to slam dunk this case, just like she did with all her cases. The defending attorney gave her a weak grin, to which she simply responded with her famous half-smile. The one that said, Nice try but no dice. I killed this and we both know it.

Lia! came a very satisfied voice. Superb job. Leaving this town with a bang people will remember. Well done!

She turned to greet her boss, Joe—former boss, she reminded herself with a giddy thrill, although the slightest touch of melancholy whispered beneath it—as he reached out to shake her hand. He'd known from the day she walked in the door she was going to help pull up his law firm's stature in town to be regarded as one of the best, and he'd been right. He'd also known she wouldn't stay forever. She knew that because he'd often mentioned it over the years. Lia the Wolf was far too ambitious for this town and she would outgrow it. The fact he'd managed to snag her for nearly five years was something he counted as a blessing.

Lia had indeed outgrown this place, darling and homey as it was. She was a big city wolf to her bones. This was her last case before she left for her slick new job. The coveted job every up and coming young legal eagle in the country had vied for. The one she had gotten, out of over four hundred very qualified applicants. The one at the infamous political DC law firm that would shoot her star into the stratosphere, give her experience to die for, and save her and Connor from the deep financial pit they were in because of his beloved yet money-sucking little clinic. She greatly admired Connor's generosity of heart and spirit and his desire to help people. But if it came at the price of putting them in the poorhouse also.... Well, at that she balked. Hard. So now she had this new, amazing, very well-paid job.

The one on the other side of the country, two thousand miles away from this small town. Two thousand miles away from Connor and his smile that lit up a room, his poor dance skills that always managed to get her laughing when they cut it up on their living room floor some weekend nights, his sweet determination to save the world, one desperate patient at a time.

Connor, the love of her life, the only one who ever truly