The Secret Mate Society

In Portland, Maine, where the cold Atlantic mist clings to cobblestone streets, Ethan Murphy is just another man trying to outrun his past. After a messy breakup and an even messier job loss, he finds himself back in his childhood town, working at a small newspaper and attempting to rebuild his life. He’s not looking for love—he barely believes in it anymore.

But love, or something far more dangerous, finds him in the form of Calder Thorne.

Calder is quiet, intense, and unsettlingly magnetic. He works as a mechanic on the outskirts of town, keeps to himself, and has eyes that flash gold when the light hits them just right. Despite every warning sign, Ethan is drawn to him, unable to shake the feeling that there’s something more beneath Calder’s rough edges.

He’s right.

Calder is a werewolf—one of many shifters in Portland, living under strict laws set by his kind to remain hidden. For a century, shifters have lived among humans, careful never to reveal themselves, never to get too close. Calder has followed those rules all his life, knowing what happens to wolves who make mistakes.

Then Ethan walks into his life, and suddenly, the rules don’t seem so easy to follow anymore.

As their slow-burn attraction ignites into something neither of them can control, a new danger emerges—one that threatens not just their growing bond but the entire shifter world. Ethan's investigative journalism has him digging too deep into Portland’s history of "wild animal attacks" like the one that cause his father's death, and a rogue werewolf, desperate and reckless, is leaving a bloody trail that could expose them all. And he's getting dangerously close.

Ethan and Calder must navigate the razor-thin line between secrecy and survival, between the life they want and the world that won’t allow it. And when the truth finally comes out, Ethan will have to make an impossible choice: walk away from the only man who has ever felt like home or risk everything for a love that was never meant to exist.

The Secret Mate Society is a gripping paranormal romance with a murder mystery twist about forbidden love, loyalty, and what it truly means to belong—even when the world says you don’t.