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Caldwell & Pike #2
Cold Track
A five-year-old went missing from a motel yard in Virginia City at dusk. By ten o'clock the county had written the word wandered in a book and gone home to bed.
Grant Caldwell and Jamie Pike were only in Nevada because Grant wanted to see a dead cowboy town.
Twenty years together. One year married. One year out of the Army. Nobody's problem and nobody's business, right up until a woman put both hands flat on her register book and said her son was five.
They are very good at exactly this. That is the trouble.
Because Grant and Jamie can read ground no search party can read, and there is no version of the truth they can hand a deputy that does not end with both of them in a cage or a lab. Everything they know, they know illegally. Everything they can prove is worth nothing.
Five days. A hill full of nothing. A truck nobody remembers seeing. And a face on a billboard that every child in the county already trusts.
COLD TRACK is the second Caldwell & Pike novel. Wolves among us, a couple who are the calm and not the crisis, and a happy ending guaranteed for the people who have earned one.
No cheating. No third-act breakup. No cliffhanger.
Grant Caldwell and Jamie Pike were only in Nevada because Grant wanted to see a dead cowboy town.
Twenty years together. One year married. One year out of the Army. Nobody's problem and nobody's business, right up until a woman put both hands flat on her register book and said her son was five.
They are very good at exactly this. That is the trouble.
Because Grant and Jamie can read ground no search party can read, and there is no version of the truth they can hand a deputy that does not end with both of them in a cage or a lab. Everything they know, they know illegally. Everything they can prove is worth nothing.
Five days. A hill full of nothing. A truck nobody remembers seeing. And a face on a billboard that every child in the county already trusts.
COLD TRACK is the second Caldwell & Pike novel. Wolves among us, a couple who are the calm and not the crisis, and a happy ending guaranteed for the people who have earned one.
No cheating. No third-act breakup. No cliffhanger.
371 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 5, 2026
About the author
E.C. Dane
20 books5 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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