MOONBOUND

Three years ago, Sable's mate-bond shattered when Kian Ashford was declared dead in battle against rogue wolves. She rebuilt herself from nothing grief-hollowed, pack-pitied, but standing. Then Kian walks back into her life, alive, revealing that his death was a lie he orchestrated and the Alpha helped bury, all to keep her safe from enemies who would have used her against him. He wants her back. She doesn't know if she can forgive being left to grieve a man who was never gone. Into that wreckage steps Rhys Vane the pack's incoming Alpha, a stranger to Redoak Hollow after years building his own reputation elsewhere, back to claim the position his father is stepping down from. He has no patience for the chaos Kian's return threatens to bring to a pack he's about to lead, and even less patience for the pull he feels toward the one woman standing in the middle of it. Sable is not supposed to be his to want. But the bond that's waking up between them is unlike anything either of them expected steadier, fiercer, and impossible to ignore. Caught between the mate she lost and buried and the one she never asked to find, Sable has to decide what a second chance actually means: returning to a love that lied to protect her, or trusting one that's only just beginning. As pack politics, old enemies, and Rhys's claim to Alpha all collide, Sable will have to choose not just between two wolves, but who she's willing to become to survive either choice. A story about rebirth after devastating loss, the cost of chosen sacrifice, and love that gets a second chance to be real.