Clara Hayes has spent three years rebuilding her life for her son and her bakery.

She doesn't have room for secrets. Then a stranger catches her boy before he hits the ice, and everything she thought she understood about safety, about love, about herself starts to unravel.

Elias Kane isn't just the quiet, brooding man who moved into the cabin at the edge of town. He's an alpha werewolf hiding a past he can't outrun, and Clara's scent hits him like a lightning strike. Mate. A word he swore he'd never think again.

As the Silverpine Christmas festival draws the whole town together, an old enemy is closing in, and one wrong move could burn everything Clara has built to the ground. She has to decide how much of the truth she can survive, and whether the man she's falling for is worth the danger he brings with him.

Snow is falling. The moon is rising. And Clara is about to learn that in Silverpine, Christmas magic comes with claws.

A steamy, emotional single mom and alpha wolf shifter romance with a guaranteed happily ever after. Perfect for fans of fated mates, small town settings, and heart racing holiday suspense.