2025 WATTYS Honorable Mention * * * Academia is a different beast all together when a university is run by werewolves and your new dean is a literal Alpha. * * *
At twenty-five, Barlow Milligan is looking forward to starting her first...
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Welcome to Packard University or as the students lovingly call it: Pack U! Our mascot might be the Timber Wolves, but those indigenous predators usually just hunt the odd deer and keep to the forests outside of town.
It's the faculty, leadership and even alumni from rival packs who run this place during the day and then run around as werewolves during the full moon's night that you should really be afraid of. Because their centuries of rules and traditions need to be kept, and not even the arrival of a young and eager outsider who asks too many questions can up-end the order.
But then she catches the eyes of one of their own . . .
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At twenty-five, Barlow Milligan is looking forward to starting her first proper job after graduate school as an Assistant Professor at the prestigious Packard University. Little does she count on the quaint, upstate New York institution being controlled by two rival packs of werewolves.
But the secretive factions have made peace, at least for now, through the promised union of Clayton Ward, Alpha of Allegheny pack and Gemma Calhoun, daughter of the leader of Black River pack.
That is, until Clayton sets his sights on making newcomer Barlow his Luna, instead.
