Welcome to The Wolf's Mercy, a cozy little nightmare of a collection where compassion bites back and redemption sometimes wears fur. These tales wander through mist-soaked villages and haunted valleys, where the weather has opinions and the furniture might be keeping secrets. You'll meet Annamarie, who finds mercy in a wolf's yellow eyes; Dara, who pulls a half-dead man out of a frozen river and accidentally wakes something ancient; and Emily, who hears the bell that no one else dares to ring. Each story mixes folklore, psychological suspense, and a dash of something unexplainable?like a ghost who insists on making polite conversation.

This is not a book of horror so much as of reckoning: people learning that love and fear are twins in different coats. The tone is lyrical, a little gothic, and occasionally funny in that way small towns are funny when the stakes involve both tea and damnation. If you enjoy stories that glow faintly in the dark and whisper, "Don't worry, it's only the truth," then you'll be right at home here.