Homecoming (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798253290811)

Four months pregnant, two months left, thirty-two hours of highway, and a family who's never met the snow leopard who got him this way.

Rio Blackwater is a male omega cougar, and he's coming home to New Mexico bonded, expecting, and navigating by a cassette player and a spreadsheet of optimal traffic patterns. Tenzin made the spreadsheet. Rio found it on the counter and loved him so much his chest nearly cracked.

A mother who already knows.

Shimá smelled it from the driveway. She waited three days to say anything, because that's what cougars do. They gather information until the picture is complete. By then Tenzin had rebuilt her garden wall, fixed her roof, and earned the nod from Rio's father that took thirty years of silence to build up to.

A house with room.

Back in Rhode Island, the nesting hits hard. The loft is wrong. The cabin is too small. And Tenzin, the man who spent six years alone on a hundred acres, the last of his kind, who'd planned to let his line end with him, starts building a house. Not for solitude. For what comes next.

He doesn't build it alone. Nobody in Rhode Island is related by blood, and it doesn't matter. The house goes up by people who arrive without being asked and leave before anyone can thank them, and the baby will be born into a full room. You don't have to know how this pack came together to feel held by it. That's the whole point of it.

From the desert to the delivery room: family reunions, nesting crises, a midnight ultrasound in an aquarium, twenty-five parenting books, and a first shift that changes what the last of his line was ever going to mean.

Omega pregnancy, start to finish. The announcement, the kicks, the birth. The part of the Common Ground story that happens off the page everywhere else. A snow leopard who reads parenting books with a sniper's precision, and a male omega cougar who fills every silence with love.

You don't need to read the Common Ground series to read this. Homecoming stands alone, beginning to end, no cliffhanger.

If you met Rio and Tenzin in Spring Tide and wanted their whole story, this is it, the pregnancy, the family, the house, the cub.

Safe Harbor, Book One. Set in the Common Ground universe. HEA with a cub.