Ava escaped the family who controlled her years ago. But when her grandmother’s final bequest puts an old blood oath back in her hands, one touch gives her family access to her magic again.
Blue Mountain Enforcer Dakota Underwood finds Ava at the pack boundary with her magic attacking his land. He should stop her. Instead, her scent tells him the lone witch surrounded by wolves is his fated mate.
Now Dakota is her bodyguard, Ava can’t trust her own magic, and neither of them knows when it will turn against the pack again.
To save the pack and the wolf she never meant to love, Ava has to break her family’s magic—and pay its hidden price.
Fated Mates · Bodyguard Romance · Found Family · Forced Proximity · Slow Burn · Witch and Wolf Shifter · Family Betrayal
Heat: Steamy (open door)
Tone: Suspenseful, emotional, hard-won
Series: Book 1 of 6, Wolfbound Witches (Blue Mountain World) (interconnected standalones)
Length: ~45,000 words, a fast-paced short novel
Ending: HEA, no cliffhanger
POV: Dual, third person, past tense
Content Notes: Family emotional abuse and manipulation, traumatic loss of power, on-page magical violence and injury, on-page intimacy; no cheating, no cliffhanger.
Paranormal romance author KJ Warawa had worked every job under the sun, including swimwear seller, switchboard operator, legal secretary, sign language interpreter, soldier, massage therapist, and process improvement advisor, before settling into the career she’d always dreamed about: Author.
She still loves processes and spreadsheets, doesn’t love massaging feet, and is currently living out her own love story in Alberta, Canada.