Another Chance (Black Hills Wolves #41)

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Another Chance

Copyright  2016 by Taryn Kincaid

ISBN: 978-1-61333-964-0

Cover art by Fiona Jayde

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Dear Readers,

If you like ANOTHER CHANCE, I hope you’ll check out WOLF’S SONG, the story of Chance’s younger brother, Brick Northridge, and his love, Summer McCoy. I love hearing from you and enjoy your feedback. You can find me on Twitter, Facebook and Goodreads. Your comments are what make it worthwhile and I love email. You can email me at taryn@tarynkincaid.com . Don’t forget to check out my website and blog to see what’s new and coming soon!

Taryn Kincaid

Black Hills Wolves Stories

Wolf’s Return

What a Wolf Wants

Black Hills Desperado

Wolf’s Song

Claiming His Mate

When Hell Freezes

Portrait of a Lone Wolf

Alpha in Disguise

A Wolf’s Promise

Reluctant Mate

Diamond Moon

Wolf on a Leash

Tempting the Wolf

Naming His Mate

A Wolf Awakens

The Wolf and the Butterfly

Infiltrating Her Pack

Omega’s Heart

Rebel’s Claw

Claiming the She-Wolf

Worth Fighting For

Dangerous

Uncaged

Promiscuous Wolf

Disquieted Souls

A Cougar Among Wolves

Long Road Home

A Mate’s Healing Touch

Another Chance

Broken Silence

Winter Solstice Run

Wolf’s Holiday

Winter Magic

Winter Secrets

Winter Solstice Ménage

Wolf in Winter Clothing

Murder in Los Lobos

Scent of Murder

Scent of the Hunt

Scent of His Woman

Scent of Madness

Coming Soon

A Wolf’s Contract

A Mate’s Redeeming Touch

A Cougar Among Wolves

Pleasure Me

Secrets of the Hunt

Craving His Love

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Thunder

Frost

Blizzard

Heat Wave

In From the Cold

Wolf’s Song

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Another Chance

Chance Northridge left Los Lobos more than ten years ago, deserting his family and his young, unclaimed mate. Now he’s back, upsetting their world.

But those he left behind don’t understand that the pack’s former insane Alpha threatened everything Chance cared about in the world. Still, he’s got some big-time groveling ahead of him.

Julie Pembroke has struggled hard to forget her disloyal mate’s desertion and to gain acceptance in the pack as a woman on her own, and making a new life for herself.

When disaster strikes his family and endangers Julie’s life, can Chance prove himself worthy of a place in the pack and in his mate’s heart?

Another Chance

Black Hills Wolves

By

Taryn Kincaid

Chapter One

Brick.

Summer repeated her mate’s name three times, each utterance a little louder. Hard to compete with the noise level rising from the soft rag rug she’d braided and knotted herself during her pregnancy, while enduring all the jokes the Tao pack—and the occasional member of the Goldspark feline clan—flung at her about rug rats.

Brick lay flat on his back, the rug bunched beneath him on the polished, hardwood floor of the log cabin he’d turned into a luxurious forest lodge during his ten years of banishment from Los Lobos and the Black Hills Wolves. Clay and Autumn, their young pup and cub, sprawled across his muscular chest, having crazy fun practicing roaring and howling—and generally wrestling and roughhousing—with their dad. With every squeak and growl, the little ones got more insanely hysterical, their laughter so wild they shifted in and out of their animal forms like blinking neon signs.

Bending down, Summer snatched up her squirming pup and plopped him naked into his playpen. The pen couldn’t hold either of her mischievous offspring, but she needed to grab her mate’s attention. He remained, as always, enthralled with their tiny family pack. Although he’d always protect them with his life, all hell could break loose around them before he’d forego the pleasure of playing with his kids. Touchy-feely as his pack and her clan could be at times, she’d never seen an adult male who doted on his babies the way her mate did.

We’ve got a situation, Brick.

What? her wolf asked, his smile contented and lazy. Life was good for them now. The clamoring voices of his packmates and the unwanted visions of their deaths no longer haunted him, befuddling his mind. It’d take an exploding stack of dynamite to move him from his zone of comfort at the center of his little family. He tickled the padded paws and soft underbelly of the small kitten cub trying to climb his torso to nip at his solid chin until Autumn shrieked.

Unfortunately, Summer was about to let loose just such a bombshell on him.

My Uncle Cal’s got your brother in his jail in Shady Heart.

"My what? Your what? Brick scrambled to his feet, clutching the cub to his heart and nuzzling the top of her furry head before releasing her into the pen with her sibling. He stared at Summer, his brandy-bright eyes wide with shock. My brother? In the Shady Heart jail?"

Yeah, Chance Northridge, Cal said. I didn’t even know you had a brother. Were you ever going to tell me?

Jesus. He brushed a hand through his dark, coffee-colored hair. I haven’t seen or heard from Chance in more than ten years. Bastard fled Los Lobos before I did. Left us to rot there. Didn’t care what the hell happened, what insane cruelty Magnum could devise.

"Yeah, well. Looks like he needs you now. It appears he’s back. Or in Shady Heart, anyway. The jail to be precise. Cal, um, suggests, you come spring him ASAP. He says to bring cash. A lot of cash."

Holy Hunter’s Moon. Chance has always been hotheaded and reckless. Goddess only knows what kind of trouble he got up to in Shady Heart.

Her uncle’s town, the stronghold of the feline shifter clan to which as half cougar and half skinwalker she’d once belonged, beckoned shifter adventure-seekers and tourists and a few feckless humans to its mecca of mischief and more sordid delights. Especially those indulgent pleasures available in and around Calhoun Bartholomew Seven’s Graymarket Trading Company Saloon and Casino. Like Los Lobos, Shady Heart couldn’t be found on any map. Unlike Los Lobos, its rumored existence spread through a certain class, and Cal encouraged them to empty their wallets to fill the cats’ coffers.