The Wolf’s Song

When the boy—now a man—from the house at the end of the road returns, can Ox ignore the song that sings between them?

Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said Ox wasn't worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left.
Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road, the boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox later found out that the boy hadn't spoken for almost two years before that day, and that he belonged to the family who had moved into the house at the end of the lane.
Ox was seventeen when he found out the boy's secret, and it painted the world around him in shades of red and orange and purple, of alpha and beta and omega.
Ox was twenty-three when the killers stormed the town, leaving him with a hole in his head and his heart. The boy chased after the monster with revenge in his blood-red eyes, leaving Ox to pick up the pieces of his life by himself.
Three years have passed since that fateful day—and the boy is back. Only now he's a man, and Ox can no longer ignore the song that sings between them.