Apex: Moonbound Series by Charlotte Vane

After breaking up with a toxic boyfriend, college junior Lucy Campbell is ready to move forward with school and life and without the need to date anybody. But fellow design student Jeremy is easy to be with, attractive, and fun. Above all he listens, something she prizes like never before thanks to her previous relationship. She’s pretty sure she’s falling in love with him... moreAfter breaking up with a toxic boyfriend, college junior Lucy Campbell is ready to move forward with school and life and without the need to date anybody. But fellow design student Jeremy is easy to be with, attractive, and fun. Above all he listens, something she prizes like never before thanks to her previous relationship. She’s pretty sure she’s falling in love with him.For Jeremy Freeman, it’s always a risk to tell a human what he is; many of them regard his kind with suspicion and prejudice. But he’s absolutely sure from the bottom of his wolf heart that he’s met his true mate.Lucy knows two things about wolves. She knows they change form during the full moon, and she knows not to call them “werewolves.” She’s also pretty sure she’s never met a wolf before.She’s about to find out she’s been dating one.To Love a Wolf is a prequel novella set eight years before the first book of the Apex: Moonbound series. less

Shortly after he began changing under the moon, Ember Grant’s nephew Quinn disappeared. It doesn’t matter to Ember that he’s a lupine; Quinn is family, and he could be in danger. Protecting him is worth any risk. Ember traces him to a community outside the sleepy Tennessee town of Harmony Ridge. She's not prepared to meet Aaron, a lupine who challenges everything she thought she knew about his kind. For one thing, he's caring and patient. For another, he hates the word lupine... moreShortly after he began changing under the moon, Ember Grant’s nephew Quinn disappeared. It doesn’t matter to Ember that he’s a lupine; Quinn is family, and he could be in danger. Protecting him is worth any risk. Ember traces him to a community outside the sleepy Tennessee town of Harmony Ridge. She's not prepared to meet Aaron, a lupine who challenges everything she thought she knew about his kind. For one thing, he's caring and patient. For another, he hates the word lupine.Aaron Reed is a wolf. He knows what that means—the best and the worst of it—and he's glad to accept custody of Quinn, a pup in need of guidance the way he once was. He's not prepared to meet Ember, Quinn's aunt, who shows up on his porch at five in the morning demanding to see her nephew. For one thing, she's a battering ram of impatience. For another, his pack brothers say his intense attraction to her is more than attraction. It's fate.Aaron offers to house Ember as his guest until the next full moon, ten days away. Ten days for Ember to get to know the wolves, to see for herself that Quinn belongs and is safe here. Ten days for Aaron to show her that she belongs here too…with him. But Ember didn’t track down a wolf pack with anything like romance in mind, and Aaron has seen too many times how tenuous love can be. Life has taught both of them to keep up their guard. How will they learn to open their hearts? less

Nine years ago, Kelsey Everette fled her dear hometown of Harmony Ridge, Tennessee with a broken heart. Now she’s back to care for her favorite aunt after major surgery. Unfortunately someone else is helping Aunt Maggie too: the heartbreaker himself. No longer a teenaged pup, Trevor has grown into a strong and attractive wolf, but his deeply passionate heart hasn’t changed…a heart he says still belongs to Kelsey... moreNine years ago, Kelsey Everette fled her dear hometown of Harmony Ridge, Tennessee with a broken heart. Now she’s back to care for her favorite aunt after major surgery. Unfortunately someone else is helping Aunt Maggie too: the heartbreaker himself. No longer a teenaged pup, Trevor has grown into a strong and attractive wolf, but his deeply passionate heart hasn’t changed…a heart he says still belongs to Kelsey.As a wolf who changes form under the full moon, Trevor Sterling believed the girl he loved would have a better life without him. But there are consequences for a wolf who denies his mate. For nine years he’s felt his wolf strength seeping away, a loss he has concealed from his entire pack. Then, one unexpected morning, Kelsey shows up in her aunt’s kitchen and demands he return the spare key, and everything he’s kept buried begins to resurface.Aunt Maggie asks them to endure each other’s company long enough to help her get well. Trevor has one last chance to claim his true mate and maybe to be a whole wolf again, but first he must prove himself trustworthy. Kelsey longs to rekindle old friendships in the wolf community and, most of all, to belong with Trevor again, but her wolf sent her away once. How can she trust he won’t do it again? less