Braden Payne

Braden Payne is the main character of Blackwood, the first book in the Perth Shifters series.

Biography
Photographer omega who takes omega hormone suppressants and uses to a beta scent masker to pretend to be a beta, after a tragic event with a predatory alpha that he’s been to a therapist about thanks, and doesn’t need any more work on that. Except that he refuses to date or anything. And that he doesn’t want to have heats anymore, except that time when he, you know, kind of gets lost in the forest during a storm and runs out of suppressants. Goddamnit.

Has anxiety, a lot of chronic injuries from bouldering (free-climbing without leads or ropes) and is a wildlife and landscape photographer. Lives in yuppie cafe-centric Mt. Lawley and then will happily rough it in the middle of nowhere. Mid-20s, but everyone who sees his photography thinks he’s older. Calls himself a ‘dumb wolf,’ talks to himself too much, thinks Coll is weird, and spends his free time occasionally pulling up pictures of hot Scotsmen on his computer and jacking off to them. But he would never find someone like Coll attractive. Never. Not his style.