He can't fully shift. She can't stop shifting. And Silvermark Academy just made them lab partners.
Theo Reyes arrived at the most prestigious shifter school in the territory with exactly two things going for him: a legacy scholarship he didn't earn and a half-completed wolf shift that every faculty member has already filed under liability. He's used to making himself small. Used to being the thing that doesn't fit the classification.
Mira Voss has never been small a day in her life. Four rare shifter forms. Top of every ranking. A power set so extreme that a senior professor has spent three years quietly building a case to have her removed — framing her extraordinary gifts as a threat the institution cannot afford to keep.
They are, on paper, the worst possible pairing.
The partnership Theo and Mira are forced into shouldn't work. He reads stillness where she moves at full force. She commands instinct; he tracks it with a precision no full-shifter can match. But as their Tuesday morning lab sessions stretch into late nights, as the methodology they build together begins to dismantle the very academic framework designed to erase them both, something undeniable starts forming in the space between workstations seven and eight.
Then the formal enrollment review letter arrives. Professor Arden's committee wants Mira out — and Theo's scholarship is on the line too. They have four weeks to prove that everything the academy believes about power, capability, and what counts as enough is wrong.
Half Wolf, All Trouble is a slow-burn shifter academy romance about two people who are extraordinary in all the ways the system can't classify — and what happens when the right person finally stops needing you to be less than you are.
With a cast that includes a fox-blooded information broker who knows everything about everyone, a grandmother network running quiet institutional interference since 1987, and a fifth form thought extinct for over a century, this is a story about taxonomy as power, belonging as a choice, and the particular danger of being seen accurately by someone with nothing to gain from lying about what they see.
If you love enemies-to-lovers slow burn, found family, and paranormal romance where the tension is built from intellectual sparring just as much as longing glances — Half Wolf, All Trouble is your next obsession.
Grab your copy today and find out what happens when the academy tries to erase the very students it was built for.
