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1895. New York.Gabriel Webster's pack is in trouble. His father's failing health and his mother's untimely death mean that the vultures are circling. It won't be long before his family's assets are stripped and his pack disbanded. When an offer of help arrives in the form of a marriage of convenience, he has little choice but to accept.The arrangement would be the perfect solution, if not for one thing. Gabriel is to marry Nathaniel Hayward, the Alpha who was badly injured in the accident that killed his brother ten years before--and the man Gabriel has been in love with for as long as he can remember.Trapped in a business arrangement masquerading as a marriage--in a strange, empty house with a damaged husband who barely tolerates him--isn't what Gabriel expected from life.But sometimes the last thing we want is the beginning of something more.And an ending can be the start of something beautiful....56k wordsA standalone story set in the Homestead universe.