Pipe Down

"Okay," Bea says out loud, like naming it will make it stop. It doesn't. At forty-two, Bea Villanueva knows exactly who she is: a no-nonsense plumber, a problem-solver, a woman who fixes what's broken and moves on. Night sweats? Hormones. Tremors? Fatigue. The sudden, bone-deep craving for red meat? Just another symptom to manage. Until the night everything breaks. Called out to a remote estate at midnight, Bea expects a routine drainage job. What she gets instead is something impossible—her body turning against her, shifting into something she can't explain, can't control… and can't undo. Nadia Vael, the estate's enigmatic owner, isn't surprised. She knows exactly what's happening—and what Bea is becoming. Thrown into a hidden world of pack politics, buried instincts, and dangerous truths, Bea is forced to confront a reality she never asked for. Late-onset wolf shifts are rare. Unstable. Watched closely. And if she doesn't learn control fast, she could become a threat—to others, and to herself. But the deeper Bea is pulled into this world, the harder it becomes to ignore the pull toward Nadia: controlled, distant, and hiding secrets of her own. Because whatever this transformation is, it didn't happen by accident. Bea has spent her life fixing what's broken. But what happens when the thing that needs fixing… is her? And if she can't control the wolf—who will?