The Alpha’s Healer: A Steamy Paranormal Shifter Romance (Pine Ridge Shifters Book 1) by Trinity James

She bought a vet clinic in a town full of secrets. The biggest one has blue eyes and a habit of showing up bleeding.Emma Mitchell did everything right after her business partner destroyed her career. She found a fresh start, bought a clinic sight unseen in a remote Pacific Northwest town, and promised herself she'd never trust that easily again. Pine Ridge should be simple. Quiet. A place to treat dogs and cats, and mind her own business.But the animals here aren't what they seem.A wolf the size of a small horse breaks into her clinic on night one, bleeding and eerily calm while she stitches him up. The town's residents are too watchful, too coordinated, too careful about what they say around her. And Dominic Kane, the broad, quiet man who runs this place like it belongs to him, keeps finding reasons to be near her clinic while pretending he's not.Dominic built Pine Ridge as a sanctuary for shifters who had nowhere else to go. He's spent years keeping humans out. Now one has moved into the center of his territory, and his wolf has decided she's his. The man knows better. The wolf doesn't care.She's asking questions. He's running out of answers. And the pull between them is making it impossible for either of them to walk away.The Alpha's Healer is a steamy paranormal shifter romance featuring a grumpy alpha with a protective streak a mile wide, a sunshine heroine who talks to animals more than people, and a mate bond that neither of them asked for but neither can resist. Complete with a guaranteed HEA and the kind of found family that makes you wish Pine Ridge was real.