Riptide (Common Ground

Common Ground #3

by E.C. Dane

A fennec fox who built a door he could close. Nico left sixty people who loved him because the love was the wrong shape. Now he has a tiny house, a network security job, eighteen feet of counter space, and a system for everything. The system works. He's not broken. He's not lonely. He's calibrated.

A wolf who forgot how to come back. Jonah McCoy ran six weeks through winter to reach a rumor — two alphas in Rhode Island who got out. What he found was a swamp, a stone wall, and a four-pound fox who left food at a distance and didn't ask for anything. The wolf stayed. The man wasn't ready.

A bond that doesn't rush. Nico knows how to wait. He's been waiting his whole life. Jonah can't be fixed on anyone's schedule — not the military's, not his pack's, not the world's. Two people who've never stopped working find the first person who makes the work stop. But the thing following Jonah out of the Yukon isn't done looking.

The slowest slow burn. Fated mates. Found family. A four-pound fox and the wolf who followed him home.

Book Three of Common Ground. Complete romance. HEA.

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About the author

E.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.