She came to document the town's history. She didn't expect to become part of it.

Wren Calloway is a professional archivist with eleven years of experience and one rule: never stay longer than the contract. Six months in Hallow Creek, Vermont. Document the archive, photograph the history, file the submission. Leave in April.

But Hallow Creek has a way of keeping people.

From the morning she arrives, the town pays attention to her with an attentiveness she can't quite account for. Her coffee is ready before she orders it. Her window is fixed before she notices it's broken. The sheriff ? quiet, unhurried, the kind of man who says exactly what he means and nothing more ? seems to know things he shouldn't.

Then Wren finds the archive's secondary ledger. And the wolf symbol.

And a hundred and seventy-nine years of unbroken records that tell a story no heritage board has ever been cleared to read.

She's a documentarian. She builds pictures from evidence. And the picture she's building is pointing toward something she doesn't have a human framework for.

Gabriel Reyes has been sheriff of Hallow Creek his whole life. He's been waiting for Wren ? though not by name, not yet ? since January. He knows exactly what she is to him. What he doesn't know is whether she'll stay when she finds out what he is.

He's watched someone leave before. He's not sure he can watch it again.

This Town Keeps Wolves is a slow-burn paranormal werewolf romance about a woman who builds pictures from evidence, a man who has been holding a direction without a destination, and the specific particular courage of choosing to stay.

Standalone novel. Complete happily ever after. No cliffhangers. Approximately 93,000 words.