Unmasked Before the Wolf: A Paranormal Werewolf Romance Hidden Heirs of Falkenwald Series, #4

Lira Prenn has spent three years building a professional record that belongs entirely to her — not to her name, not to who her father is, not to the nine years she has spent making sure no one in a Falkenwald courtroom ever connects the two.

Then she is assigned twelve custody cases she did not select, and on page eleven of the third file, she finds a name in the administrative chain of authorisation. She reads it twice. Files the page correctly. Picks up the next file.

The name stays with her.

By the time Lira has traced the routing pattern to its source, she knows three things: the cases were assembled deliberately, the minor children at the centre of them have Truthbindings built on steered assessments, and the senior welfare administrator who built the docket knew exactly whose professional credibility he was using as cover when he assigned it to her.

Emrys Trevane has been watching Lira Prenn's docket for six weeks before she arrives in Fenwick Reach. He is the senior Court advocate presiding over the welfare hearings. He already has the evidentiary case. What he has been waiting to see — what he has been watching for with the specific quality of someone who has already made his decision and is waiting on hers — is what she will do when she finds it.

He knows who her father is. She doesn't know that he knows.

He knows the routing log has been in the Fenwick Reach archive the whole time, in the welfare administrator's own handwriting, filed by the man who built the docket. What he doesn't know is whether Lira will read the case correctly — which means reading herself into it, which means putting her name in the record beside her father's, which means paying a cost she has spent nine years making sure no one could ever ask her to pay.

She is going to have to decide whether to declare herself.

He is going to have to decide whether to let her do it alone.

Unmasked Before the Wolf is a steamy paranormal werewolf romance set in the Falkenwald welfare court system — forced proximity, hidden identity, and two professionals working the same case from opposite angles until the only direction left is toward each other.

For readers who want their romance with full emotional weight, a heroine who reads cases correctly even when the case costs her, and a hero who makes sure she goes first.

Book 4 of the Hidden Heirs of Falkenwald series. Each book follows a new couple and can be read as a satisfying standalone. Reading in order is recommended for the fullest experience of the Falkenwald world.