The Onion Came First: Stem Meets Supernatural Ridge Wildland Shifter

A former SEAL and legendary alpha—exiled and broken.A Wall Street math genius—dyslexic and burnt out.When their worlds collide, their bond will challenge everything the shifter world believes about alphas, mates, and power itself. She’s a financial analyst from Wall Street. Brilliant, scattered, and burnt out—but not extinguished.He’s a former special operations soldier with alpha wolf in his blood—and a high-maintenance macaw. Exiled from his pack. Unable to bond.Now they live on the same remote mountain—one drawn by desperation, the other by instinct.She doesn’t expect a neighbor. He doesn’t expect a bond.But when she shows up on his door with a basket of onions, a luminous smile, and a rambling theory about the five essential foods everyone needs daily, her whirlwind presence, unexpected courage and deep kindness begin to unravel both the man and the wolf. When she encounters a mysterious wolf in the wilderness, she must face the truth: the pull she feels is more than her imagination.And the man across the meadow is not what he seems.