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Common Ground #2
Spring Tide
A cougar who can't stop moving. Rio Blackwater has been running since he was nineteen — seasonal work, new cities, no roots. When a summer bartending gig on Block Island puts him in the path of a scent he can't explain, he follows it into the woods of northern Rhode Island. And doesn't come back.
A snow leopard who stopped. Tenzin Dorjee came home from thirty years of military service to bury his parents and walk the boundary of a hundred silent acres. Six years alone. Two graves. A truck that starts on the second try. He wasn't waiting for anyone. The leopard disagrees.
A bond that changes the shape of everything. Fated mates are supposed to be the answer. But Rio needs people the way he needs air, and Tenzin's solitude isn't a wound — it's the architecture of his life. When a restless cougar and a quiet leopard try to build something that holds them both, they'll need more than a bond. They'll need a foundation.
Fated mates. Found family. Big cat shifters who earned each other the hard way.
Book Two of Common Ground. Complete romance. HEA.
A snow leopard who stopped. Tenzin Dorjee came home from thirty years of military service to bury his parents and walk the boundary of a hundred silent acres. Six years alone. Two graves. A truck that starts on the second try. He wasn't waiting for anyone. The leopard disagrees.
A bond that changes the shape of everything. Fated mates are supposed to be the answer. But Rio needs people the way he needs air, and Tenzin's solitude isn't a wound — it's the architecture of his life. When a restless cougar and a quiet leopard try to build something that holds them both, they'll need more than a bond. They'll need a foundation.
Fated mates. Found family. Big cat shifters who earned each other the hard way.
Book Two of Common Ground. Complete romance. HEA.
414 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 9, 2026
About the author
E.C. Dane
24 books7 followersE.C. Dane writes M/M shifter romance from somewhere in New England, where the winters are unreasonable and the fictional characters have stronger opinions than most elected officials.
Before publishing, there were twenty-five-plus years of writing in online fiction communities, none of it for money, all of it for love and comments. That apprenticeship left habits that carried over intact: content notes that mean something, heat levels stated plainly, and endings you can trust. If you came up in those communities too, you already know the deal. Read the tags. The tags are honest.
Caldwell & Pike is M/M wolf-shifter romantic suspense. Two ex-Delta operators, twenty years side by side, newly married, trying to be civilians. It isn't going well. Established couple, high heat, live ammunition.
Common Ground is longer-form M/M omegaverse romance with more danger, bigger stakes, and plots that build across volumes. Fated mates who earn it the hard way. More teeth. Medium heat, and not fade to black.
Bad Little Falls is a different world entirely. Cozy, funny, explicit omegaverse with fated mates, small-town meddling, and a guaranteed happy ending in every book. There are drafts through Book 20 in various states of "needs editing." They're coming. The town keeps growing.
Safe Harbor runs alongside Common Ground: mpreg, warmth-forward, and labeled clearly on its own front door so nobody wanders in by accident.
Publishing is new. The learning curve is real. If you got here early, thank you for your patience while the author figures out which buttons do what and why there are so many of them.
Home is shared with five chaos foxes who run the household and allow a human to remain as a courtesy. Signing up for my newsletter gets you new release alerts plus two free welcome gifts: True North, the Caldwell & Pike prequel novella, and an exclusive short story set in Bad Little Falls. subscribepage.io/ecdane
The author welcomes derivative and transformative works based on any of these worlds. If you're inspired to write, draw, or create, please do. The author asks only that fanworks be posted to AO3 and locked to registered users, to keep content scrapers from reposting them to paid platforms without anyone's consent. The author does not read fanworks for legal and creative reasons, but is genuinely glad they exist.
Before publishing, there were twenty-five-plus years of writing in online fiction communities, none of it for money, all of it for love and comments. That apprenticeship left habits that carried over intact: content notes that mean something, heat levels stated plainly, and endings you can trust. If you came up in those communities too, you already know the deal. Read the tags. The tags are honest.
Caldwell & Pike is M/M wolf-shifter romantic suspense. Two ex-Delta operators, twenty years side by side, newly married, trying to be civilians. It isn't going well. Established couple, high heat, live ammunition.
Common Ground is longer-form M/M omegaverse romance with more danger, bigger stakes, and plots that build across volumes. Fated mates who earn it the hard way. More teeth. Medium heat, and not fade to black.
Bad Little Falls is a different world entirely. Cozy, funny, explicit omegaverse with fated mates, small-town meddling, and a guaranteed happy ending in every book. There are drafts through Book 20 in various states of "needs editing." They're coming. The town keeps growing.
Safe Harbor runs alongside Common Ground: mpreg, warmth-forward, and labeled clearly on its own front door so nobody wanders in by accident.
Publishing is new. The learning curve is real. If you got here early, thank you for your patience while the author figures out which buttons do what and why there are so many of them.
Home is shared with five chaos foxes who run the household and allow a human to remain as a courtesy. Signing up for my newsletter gets you new release alerts plus two free welcome gifts: True North, the Caldwell & Pike prequel novella, and an exclusive short story set in Bad Little Falls. subscribepage.io/ecdane
The author welcomes derivative and transformative works based on any of these worlds. If you're inspired to write, draw, or create, please do. The author asks only that fanworks be posted to AO3 and locked to registered users, to keep content scrapers from reposting them to paid platforms without anyone's consent. The author does not read fanworks for legal and creative reasons, but is genuinely glad they exist.
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August 4, 2026
A satisfying romance with deep characters - worth your time!
This is my first E. C. Dane book and I am so impressed, I can't wait to read everything she's written. She makes you feel deeply the romance between an extrovert and an extreme introvert without being physically explicit, and makes it poignantly clear that being fated mates doesn't mean life together is perfect.
She has a poetic way with her writing, evocative descriptions of the main couple and also their circle of friends, and frequent humorous moments that enhance the story. Very worth your time!
This is my first E. C. Dane book and I am so impressed, I can't wait to read everything she's written. She makes you feel deeply the romance between an extrovert and an extreme introvert without being physically explicit, and makes it poignantly clear that being fated mates doesn't mean life together is perfect.
She has a poetic way with her writing, evocative descriptions of the main couple and also their circle of friends, and frequent humorous moments that enhance the story. Very worth your time!
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