Silver Mine

Silver Mine is part of Vivian Arend's Takhini Wolves series. Chase Johnson has chosen a solitary life, staying apart from others of his kind because he is a crossbreed who never knows whether his next change will bring a cougar or a wolf. Once a year he must leave his isolation to speak for the Yukon's outcast shifters, a role no one elected him to. On one of these trips he meets a woman who draws his attention, though she is not his mate.

Shelley Bradley has finally gathered the nerve to return to her home pack. As a shifter who cannot shift, she sits at the bottom of the pack's standing, but she is determined to earn a place as the new veterinarian and doctor serving the people of Whitehorse. She feels the pull between them but has long since grown tired of the games shifters play with one another, so she tries to keep her distance. That plan falls apart when Chase walks into her clinic with a wound that will not heal, and she cannot resist trying to solve the puzzle it presents.

Their search takes them deep into outcast territory, where their strong attraction becomes harder to deny. Little time remains. Unless a cure is found, Chase's human and cougar sides will fail, and others like him face the same fate.