title: The Unexpected Alpha
author: Harding, Alea
description: Emma's insistence her best friend's a talking wolf landed her in the psych ward. When she's released six years later, it's the wolf who takes her in. But the creature she bunks with in Maine isn't anything like the one she remembers from her childhood. Tucker-a wolf shifter whose sole purpose is to sacrifice himself to heal the Earth-hasn't shared his bed in over a century. Falling in love the first time around ended with him having a broken heart inside the body of a wolf. It's a sacrifice he's not willing to repeat. But when he tells Emma, a feisty blonde whose touch is as fiery as her personality, about the pact he has with his not-so-immortal life, she'll do whatever she can to change his mind. Falling in love wasn't part of the plan. And if that wasn't bad enough, Emma becoming the pack's newest alpha is. With the land shifting beneath their feet, can Emma save the pack and the wolf she loves without endangering the Earth? Or will she make the ultimate sacrifice?