O. M. G. I could hardly stop reading this as I love this genre! Channing was a mess in his younger days, and he continued the reckless trend when his older brother and his wife took him in when he was nineteen, but is brother was killed. After he died, Channing inner wolf recognized that Julia was His mate as well, but he knew that Julia was not ready so he monitor her home, had his friend check on her and his nephew. He left after the funeral, stayed away or ten years and returned when Geo was thirteen because he would need his help as he went through shifting into his wolf as his mom was human and had no idea how to help. I loved that Channing grew up to be a fine man and stayed away from Julia until he could not fight his wolf any longer. I felt that Geo needed a wolf shifter to show him how to shift as his human friends' parents could not teach him how to do it as he did want to be different and hide his abilities. I have never read the first books and I CAN'T IMAGINED HOW THEY COULD GET ANY BETTER!! ( )