The Linchpin — Maggie Walsh

Alex is a delta/gamma wolf with deep desires to be taken by two Masters. His life is pretty normal and boring, besides the fact that he has grown up as a delta with a burning need to have sex, as his kind is known for. However once he hits his twenty-fifth birthday and he fully matures into who he will be, and his gamma side comes forward, Alex wants more than just sex, he wants to submit fully to a lover, he wants to belong to someone. Two someone’s actually. He has dreamed of finding two men who can master him and give him what he needs.Tug is an alpha/beta with their pack and runs the pack pub for the alpha. He also is the man of Alex’s dreams. Tug is big, funny, caring, friendly, but he also exudes that alpha domination that Alex craves so much. When Alex finds out that Tug already has a man of his own, a boyfriend he is in a committed relationship with, all Alex’s dreams of submitting to Tug crash around him.Then one day Alex meets a new man, Raiden and finds himself attracted to the beta/delta and runs away scared. Not that he wouldn’t love to get to know Raiden and maybe see if there could be something between them, but Alex really craves a Dominant male. Not that the beta in Raiden won’t be Dominant, but Alex doesn’t get that vibe from the intense, friendly male.Not knowing that Raiden is actually Tug’s boyfriend, Alex finds himself overwhelmed and shocked when he has an encounter with both men together and feels a pull to belong to them both. When Raiden and Tug start to make advances toward him, Alex is thrilled, but confused, until their alpha, Dell, orders them to the alpha house, then explains to them that the three of them are actually true mates.While speaking to the alpha they all find out about something called The Reckoning and how a great purge will be coming to Earth by the gods to cleanse it. Only those of their kind who are true mates will survive the purge. But, they also learn about something called a “linchpin”, and Dell believes that Alex is one. He explains that Tug and Raiden are actually true mates, but never knew until they met their linchpin together, and that man is Alex.Now that the three of them know the truth and feel the pull to mate, they are each excited to start their lives together, but outside forces in the form of a twink wanting Tug and Raiden as his own, steps in and causes chaos and misunderstandings.When Alex disappears at the hands of a stalker, it is up to Tug and Raiden to save their true mate before someone else claims what is theirs, and they can all finally claim each other.