The Alpha's mercy

 Mercy Cobb-Richardson has spent her life enduring.

As an empath, she feels the emotions of everyone around her as if they were her own. In Regency London, where every glance hides judgment and every ballroom is crowded with feelings she cannot escape, Mercy has learned to survive by staying quiet, behaving properly, and trying desperately to become the daughter her family expects her to be.

Then she meets Lucas Dyer.

An ancient wolf shifter, Lucas carries centuries of duty with the same quiet endurance Mercy recognizes in herself. His presence offers her something no one else ever has: peace from the constant press of other people’s emotions. Yet just as something begins to form between them, duty pulls Lucas away.

For Mercy, it becomes one abandonment too many.

So she runs.

Instead of going where her family will expect to find her, Mercy escapes into a supernatural world she was never supposed to know existed and finds herself in Chautauqua, under the protection of a grandmother she never knew she had. For the first time, Mercy begins learning what her abilities truly are, and what she might become when no one is telling her who she is supposed to be.

Lucas is determined to find her. What begins as a search for the woman he left behind leads him back to his own people and a life defined by more than duty. As Mercy finds a place among his wolves, the connection between them deepens into something neither duty nor instinct can decide for them.

Meanwhile, something is hunting the supernatural communities surrounding Chautauqua. Corruption is spreading through the dragon veins, vampires are rising from the lake, and Mercy discovers that the sensitivity she was taught to see as a burden may be one of the most powerful weapons they have.

Mercy ran away because she could no longer live the life everyone else had chosen for her.

Now she has to decide what she wants to choose for herself.

Including whether Lucas will be part of it.

 A slow-burn paranormal Regency romance with fated mates, an empath heroine, a protective wolf shifter, found family, ancient magic, and a love built on choice.