{"id":27319,"date":"2026-07-31T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=27319"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:27:35","slug":"the-wolf-at-the-door-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/27319","title":{"rendered":"The Wolf at the Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/123948\/9781488089329\"><em>The Wolf at the Door<\/em><\/a> (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Adhara_Charlie.php\">Charlie Adhara<\/a> (Big Bad Wolf, #1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/123948\/9781488089329\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-wolf-at-the-door-10.jpg?resize=190%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Wolf at the Door\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-wolf-at-the-door-10.jpg?resize=190%2C300&amp;ssl=1 190w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-wolf-at-the-door-10.jpg?resize=768%2C1213&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-wolf-at-the-door-10.jpg?resize=648%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 648w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-wolf-at-the-door-10.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The old-fashioned investigative work Cooper had dreamed of doing when he got recruited to the FBI wasn\u2019t really applicable these days.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAfter cases like Bethesda he felt like a glorified bounty hunter, and that wasn\u2019t why he\u2019d wanted to get into law enforcement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>At Cooper\u2019s last checkup his doctor had told him there was no medical reason he should still be experiencing sharp, burning pain in his belly. Then he\u2019d referred him to a psychologist. Cooper had not gone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Cooper blinked at Park\u2019s candidness. It was the first time he\u2019d said the W word. \u201cDo a lot of wolves head north for the summer?\u201d What were they, geese?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI should have listened to your opinion yesterday. So I\u2019d like to hear what you think now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>he had promised himself a long time ago he wasn\u2019t going to put himself in an unbalanced relationship like that ever again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: Cooper Dayton, Oliver Park, Martin Jefferson, Special Agent in Charge Santiago, Agent Corrigan, Margaret Cola, Officer Michael Miller, Chief Melissa Brown, Officer Tim Harris, Ranger Christie, Jennifer Eagler, Samuel Whittaker, Geoffrey Baker, Rudi Abouesse, Ben Pultz, Jacob Symer, Thomas Montgomery, Jacob Furthoe, Kyle Bornestein, Robert Gould, Kelly Gould, Vince Medes, Sheriff Ed Dayton, Ava<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Carina Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolf at the Door (2018) Charlie Adhara (Big Bad Wolf, #1) The old-fashioned investigative work Cooper had dreamed of doing when he got recruited to the FBI wasn\u2019t really applicable these days. &#8230; After cases like Bethesda he felt like a glorified bounty hunter, and that wasn\u2019t why he\u2019d wanted to get into law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,897,292,204,207,8,742,148,41,26,56,936,34],"tags":[202,50,201,544,212],"class_list":["post-27319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-contemporary","category-ebook","category-good","category-mental-health-rep","category-mystery","category-physical-health","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","category-single-point-of-view","category-urban-fantasy","tag-big-bad-wolf","tag-boinking","tag-charlie-adhara","tag-mm","tag-ptsd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-76D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23505,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/23505","url_meta":{"origin":27319,"position":0},"title":"Thrown to the Wolves","author":"Michelle","date":"April 15, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Thrown to the Wolves (2019) Charlie Adhara (Big Bad Wolf) Cooper meets Oliver's family. 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