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Wild Fire (Wilding Pack Wolves 5)

Copyright © 2016 by Alisa Woods

April 2016 Edition

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Wild Fire
 (Wilding Pack Wolves 5)—New Adult Paranormal Romance—the FINAL Wilding Pack Wolves story!

He's a hot fireman. She's a cool scientist. The wildfire between them is nothing short of magic. 

Zoe Wilding is a genetic researcher with a secret she’d rather not have—she’s a white wolf—but with Agent Smith’s immorally-acquired experimental data on shifters, that may change. If she can just isolate the gene that expresses her dangerous white wolf, she’ll finally have a normal life. One that might include a man, if not a mate. 

Then her lab blows up. 

Troy Hartman is a firefighter and EMT who fought his way out of the shifter gangs as a kid. He’s been watching the Wilding family in the news as they battle the Wolf Hunter, and he’s been itching to join the cause. When the Wilding research facility gets firebombed, he’s first on the scene… and first to rescue a beautiful blue-eyed white wolf. 

Only this is no ordinary shifter. 

All five of the Wilding families have now been targeted by the Wolf Hunter, and the entire cadre of white wolves—Grace, Noah, Kaden, Owen, and now Zoe—have joined together to find him. Troy’s all-in with Daniel Wilding for the hunt, but the closer Troy gets to Zoe, the more his wolf wants her… only she’s hell-bent on destroying the magic inside her. Can he win over this gorgeous girl and get her to accept the beauty of her inner wolf… or will finding the Wolf Hunter destroy the wild fire inside the woman he’s starting to love?

Some days, Zoe felt like she was chasing a unicorn.

Of course, being a white wolf was like
being
a unicorn in the shifter world, but the elusive, almost mythical, thing she was after was much less magical and more scientific—a gene therapy to get rid of her internal beast. To erase everything unique, special, and
wrong
with her. She’d spent months in her lab trying to find a cure for what she was, and even though, as a scientist, she knew each failed experiment was one step closer to success… it sure as hell felt like failure ninety-nine percent of the time.

Zoe pushed away from the DNA simulator on her screen and leaned back in her chair to stretch and rub her eyes. The sun was sinking and painting her laboratory in blood reds and burnt oranges. Most of the staff had left the lab, and probably the UDub campus entirely, hours ago. She got up to brew another pot in the battered coffee maker in the corner of the lab, explicitly marked “food—not for experimentation.” The words had been etched in permanent marker on the machine after an unfortunate incident involving live cultures and not-so-thorough glassware cleaning.

Zoe stretched out the aches in her back as the coffee sputtered and brewed—she would probably drink the whole pot tonight. Progress needed to be made, and there just weren’t enough hours in the day. Maybe she should start learning some Dark Arts spells so she could resurrect Agent Smith and grill him until she got the answers she needed.

She sighed. Her frustration level had to be maxed out if she was wistfully considering both magic and Agent Smith in the same thought. The rogue NSA operative had tormented and experimented on legions of shifters—he was a horrible person, and it was a good thing he was dead. But Zoe couldn’t help wanting to resurrect his ghost in order to ask him a few pointed questions about his sloppy record-keeping methods and what, if anything, his serums accomplished when they were injected into actual shifters. She hated what he did—he was like a modern-day Joseph Mengele, performing experiments on people like they were no better than animals—but Agent Smith’s data was incredibly valuable, scientifically speaking. He had been serving a cause that was just as fucked up as he was, but he managed to develop two specific serums from the magic in shifter blood—one that enhanced a shifter’s capabilities, like magic on steroids, and another that eliminated them, but only temporarily.

Zoe was only interested in one of those, and it wasn’t the one that would create a super soldier. She wanted a permanent cure for the white wolf inside her, but that dream was proving elusive, even with all of Agent Smith’s horrifically obtained data, paid for in shifter blood, laid out before her.

There were times when she wanted to delete all of it and never look back… but the data didn’t belong to her. And now that the possibility of getting rid of her curse—the dark Wilding family secret buried in her DNA—dangled in front of her, she couldn’t help chasing after it. The white wolf that was part of the Wilding genetic code passed down through the generations had done nothing but cause grief. She sure as hell didn’t want to pass it on to her progeny and extend the curse another generation. Her white wolf might be mostly witch—she knew that was the basis for its power—but she still had a strong sense of
wolf
inside her.

And that wolf was craving a mate. Her inner beast whined and whined for an alpha to come along, claim her for his own, and love and protect her for the rest of her life.

But that meant pups… and Zoe refused to go there.

Not until she’d gotten rid of the curse locked in her DNA.

Her coffee was done, so Zoe carried it back to the computer, determined to keep hacking away at the problem, synthesizing another DNA strand based on Agent Smith’s data. But before she could settle in, a Skype notice pinged on her screen.

It was Grace Krepky, the openly-shifter candidate running for the House of Representatives… and Zoe’s partner in crime.

She accepted the call.

“Zoe Wilding, tell me you’ve got some good news for me.” Grace’s pretty face filled the screen—a bit younger than Zoe’s twenty-five years, blonde-haired where Zoe’s was raven black, but they had something very important in common… they were both white wolves.

“Sorry,” Zoe said, taking a sip of her coffee. “Science is slow sometimes.” That was certainly true, and it was definitely true that Zoe did not yet have what Grace was looking for, although she was getting closer. She’d been able to replicate the serum that Agent Smith developed to eliminate shifter abilities temporarily, but she couldn
’t get it to work permanently. S
he needed more time. Or to muster the courage to try it out on herself.

Grace scowled. “The election is only two weeks away.”