THE HOWL BENEATH THE MISTLETOE
On Christmas Eve, Aurora Hart’s world shatters when she catches her fiancé in the arms of another woman. Heartbroken and furious, she flees into an Aspen blizzard wearing nothing but the emerald dress meant for a proposal that will never happen.
She collapses at an ancient rune-stone buried in the snow… and the mountain itself answers.
A man steps out of the storm (tall, scarred, silver-eyed) and wraps her in a coat that brands a glowing mate-mark on her skin. Lucien Vale is the Alpha of a hidden werewolf pack, and for months he has been dream-walking to the lonely woman fate chose as his Luna. The veil between worlds only opened because her heart broke hard enough to pay the price in tears.
Now a supernatural blizzard (engineered by a cult that wants every mate-bond destroyed) traps them together in Lucien’s remote lodge until New Year’s Eve. If the bond isn’t sealed beneath the Winter Solstice aurora, Aurora will freeze from the inside out, no matter how many fires Lucien builds.
Between cinnamon-roll mornings, ice-skating disasters, midnight confessions under the northern lights, and a pack that adopts her whether she likes it or not, Aurora has ten days to decide: walk away and live a normal, safe, lonely life… or bind herself forever to a werewolf Alpha who would burn the world to keep her warm.
A heart-wrenching, snow-soaked slow-burn about grief, belonging, and finding home in the last place you expected, exactly when you need it most.
Youssef_Zahir · Urban
Snow is falling all around us My baby's coming home for Christmas I've been up all night inside my bedroom He said he'll be with me real soon So I wait And I wait But I've had as much as I can take 'Cause I've got 5 more nights of sleeping on my own 4 more days until you're coming home 3 more dreams of you and mistletoe 2 more reasons why I love you so I've got 5 more nights until you're next to me 4 more days of being lonely 3 more wishes I can barely breathe If I can make it to Christmas Eve then it's One more sleep (one more sleep until it's Christmas) One more sleep (Can't believe how much I missed us) One more sleep (One more sleep until it's Christmas) One more sleep Now I don't think I can remember A cold and lonelier December And I find myself singing at the window Wondering when you're gonna get back home So I try And I try But there is nothing I can do to pass this time I've got 5 more nights of sleeping on my own 4 more days until you're coming home 3 more dreams of you and mistletoe 2 more reasons why I love you so I've got 5 more nights until you're next to me 4 more days of being lonely 3 more wishes I can barely breathe If I can make it to Christmas Eve then it's One more sleep (one more sleep until it's Christmas) One more sleep (Can't believe how much I missed us) One more sleep (One more sleep until it's Christmas) One more sleep Until we're rocking around the Christmas tree Until I got you sitting next to me We got a lot of catching up to do I just can't take this missing you 5 more nights on my own 4 more days 3 more dreams Mistletoe I can't believe I ever let you go 5 more nights of sleeping on my own 4 more days until you're coming home 3 more wishes I can barely breathe If I can make it to Christmas Eve then it's one more sleep It'll be one more It'll be one more (One more sleep) It'll be one more (One more sleep) One more sleep