The chairman of the Black Hollow Creek centennial committee is dead in the livestock pavilion, and the murder weapon is a branding iron from Josie Vance's own store. Her brother is in county lockup, the sheriff isn't looking too hard at anyone else, and the Vescari family owns most of the land, most of the judges, and most of the secrets. Marco Vescari is the family's lawyer, a man who left Black Hollow Creek at eighteen and came back to keep his uncle out of prison. He walks into Josie's feed store and offers to help. Together they uncover forty years of forged deeds, one dead clerk, and a sheriff who's been taking money to look the other way. Josie solves the case with town gossip and a hidden land grant. Marco solves it by turning in his own blood. In Black Hollow Creek, justice and family are the same word. This time they mean it.

Every shifter at Ravenspar gets a pack on the first night. Marisol Vega got nothing. No wolf. No raven. No serpent. The council branded her a null and gave her one term to prove she isn't dangerous. Then the first full moon came, and every shifter on campus shifted around her - and couldn't shift back until dawn. Marisol is not a null. She's a true Alpha, from a line the council thought it exterminated. Three keepers were assigned to watch her: Kade, whose pack threw her out. Sorrow, who sold her secrets before he knew what she was. Tiernan, who has known since the day she arrived. The cull order is already signed. Ravenspar won't survive it. But Marisol will - and she's taking her pack of three with her.

Cass Rhodes has run the Bluebird Diner since she was twenty-three, and she has three rules: no crying at the counter, no dating customers, and no falling for Wade Mercer. Wade is the fire chief, her best friend, and the man in the corner booth every single morning. He's also the person she calls first for everything-except the truth. When a developer tries to buy the diner out from under her, Wade throws himself into the fight beside her. Late nights, burnt pies, a petition at the county fair. Somewhere in all of it, the friendship that has held them together for a decade starts to feel like something else. A small town friends-to-lovers romance about home, second helpings, and finally saying the thing you've been afraid to say.