Ethan Brown has just picked up Jason Dominick in a bar. Ethan knows that Jace is his mate. He can feel it, smell it.  He knows it in his bones.  After a night of amazing sex, Jace disappears. Ethan freaks out, searching for his mate for months. When he does find Jace, he finds that Jace doesn’t remember him. Jace thinks he is straight and wants to stay that way. He is next in line to be alpha of his own pack; having a male mate just isn’t something he can have and be alpha. Ethan is crushed by Jace’s rejection, but Jace finds he cannot walk away from his mate that easily. When he comes to get his mate back, he finds him seriously demoralized and needing his help. Now Jace has to undo the damage he did to Ethan by rejecting him.  He must convince Ethan that he really does love him, even while he has to defend against his old pack who are out to kill him for rejecting Alpha leadership.

Love, Always, Promise is the fifth installment to the Wolf Creek Pack series by Stormy Glenn. Though part of a series, it is not necessary to read the books in order to understand the main story of Ethan and Jace. There are some other characters sprinkled in you would know better if you did read the others in the series first.

Ethan is an idealist. He has waited for sex till he met his mate. He thinks that once he has met him it will be a happily ever after moment. Only it doesn’t turn out that way at all.  Jace has always known he was going to lead his father's pack. He has been groomed for it since birth. He knows he has to marry a woman and lead. But when he gets silver poisoning and ends up in bed with Ethan, things change for Jace. Once he learns he has a male mate, everything he thought he knew about himself he now finds he didn’t really know after all.

This story has a ton of angst, almost too much. I wish there was a little more lightness to this story, because I felt poor Ethan had a really rough road in this book. He deserved a better lover than what he got. I was disappointed that Jace was so mean to him for such a long period of time. If you ask me, Jace doesn’t deserve Ethan at all.  However, when you want a love story that you can feel passionately about as you read it, you'll want to pick up Love, Always, Promise.