He reads the land the way others read language. She reads the casualties. They've both been watching the same wrong thing.

Dane Hunter doesn't miss things. After two years running the northern section of the Smoky Mountains, he knows every trail, every waterway, every animal that moves through it. When a young bear collapses near the river with neurological symptoms that have no natural explanation, he knows exactly what he's looking at — and exactly who to call.

Juniper Hale has been running the Hale Wildlife Rescue Center alone for three years. She's good at it. She's also been filing reports about a cluster of poisoned animals for three weeks, and receiving nothing back but silence. When a quiet park ranger shows up at her gate carrying a bear on a field stretcher and tells her he knows more than he can say yet — she decides, against her better judgment, to trust him.

She wasn't wrong to.

As Dane and Juniper piece together the evidence — seven animals, the same chemical signature, a suppressed report trail that leads straight back to the network his brothers have been dismantling — it becomes clear that someone is sending a message to these mountains. And the woman who has been keeping careful count of every casualty turns out to be exactly the kind of partner he didn't know he needed.

Wild Healer is a slow-burn, sweet-with-heat bear shifter romance set in the cold, still beauty of the Smoky Mountains in deep November. It's a story of two people who do their work quietly and well, and a love that builds the same way — carefully, completely, and for keeps.