The Trail Home

Poppy Swan

Summary

Jake Todd hoped that putting a mountain range between himself and his old life would be enough to help him heal. After the betrayal that ended his last relationship, taking a job as the new doctor at Ridgemont Search and Rescue felt like the perfect escape: busy, demanding, and far away from the heartbreak he left behind. The last thing Jake was looking for is love, especially not in the form of Liam King, Ridgemont's tough and formidable canine shifter, whose cold stare and sharp tongue make it abundantly clear he doesn't want Jake there.
But when a rescue mission goes catastrophically wrong, Liam is brought back broken and barely alive and placed entirely in Jake's hands. Forced to remain in his shifted form while he heals, Liam becomes something very different from the hostile man Jake first met: loyal, quietly affectionate, and impossible not to love. As Jake finds himself helplessly drawn to the devoted beast at his side, he begins to dread the day Liam recovers enough to shift back into the man who can't stand him. How much is Liam like his shifted form? Is it too much to hope that deep down he feels something too?

Available since: 07/10/2026.

Print length: 138 pages.

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