LOGINThey say the mate bond feels like coming home. They lied. On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Sera Voss discovers her fated mate is Caden Walsh the Alpha of the very pack that killed her father, stripped her of everything, and spent thirteen years treating her like dirt beneath their feet. He rejects her. Publicly. Without hesitation. So she rejects him back. Then she walks away. Packless and alone, Sera crosses into the neutral borderlands with nothing but a cracked photograph and thirteen years of compressed fury. She doesn’t expect to survive the night. She certainly doesn’t expect him. Kael. The Alpha King. Ancient, silver-eyed, and cold in a way that feels like it has been cold for centuries. He offers her shelter. She doesn’t trust him. But something happens the moment he steps out of the dark, something in her chest that she doesn’t have a name for. Something that feels nothing like what she’s been told a mate bond feels like. Something she is absolutely not ready to examine. As Sera unravels the truth behind her father’s death and the man she was told to fear becomes the only person who has ever truly seen her, one question haunts everything. What happens when the girl they made into nothing turns out to have always been everything? Some bonds are fated. Some are chosen. And some are the kind that change the world.
View MoreThe gathering was nothing like I had imagined.It was bigger, louder, and more alive than anything I had imagined.Torches were everywhere, not just lining the paths but hanging from structures built specifically for tonight, turning the whole grounds into something golden and breathing.Tables stretched further than I could see in every direction, loaded with food that smelled like something between a feast and a fantasy. Music from everywhere and nowhere simultaneously, drums underneath everything like a second heartbeat that my wolf felt before my ears registered it.And the people, there were hundreds.Wolves I had passed in corridors looked completely differen
I woke to voices.Low, urgent voices.The sound of people discussing problems before sunrise.My wolf stirred immediately.Full moon.Through the archway connecting my rooms to Kael’s, I could hear him giving orders.I got out of bed.Crossed the room.And stopped at the entrance.Four guards stood before him.Kael stood at the center of the sitting r
I had my own room.Technically.It was connected to his through a sitting room that had no door. Just an archway. Wide, open, and completely useless as a barrier between his space and mine.I had pointed this out.He had looked at the archway.Looked at me."Yes," he had said.Like that was an answer.---It was day one of the new arrangement, and I had convinced myself it was fine; it was only temporary.&n
I woke up and knew immediately something was wrong.There was a specific feeling that made the hairs on my body stand attention. It was this instinct that had kept me alive for years in a pack that would have preferred otherwise.Something is wrong.I sat up.And saw it.On my pillow.Right next to where my head had been.A folded piece of paper.I stared at it.Someone had been in this room while I slept.Had stood next to my bed.Had placed something close enough to my face that I could have turned in my sleep and touched it.And walked back out.I can get to you anywhere.That was the message before the message.I picked it up with steady hands.Opened it.---The handwriting was the same jagged angry strokes.You were warned traitor's daughter. You did not listen. The blood your father spilled does not wash out. It runs through your veins the same as it ran through his. Every day you remain in this palace you put everyone in it at risk. We are not asking again. Leave. Leave now. O
I read it twice.Then I looked up and down the empty corridor.No one.I looked back at the note.My first thought was Kael.Because who else knew I was here?But then I thought about the man I’d just had lunch with. The flat voice. The silver eyes. The complete absence of anything indirect about h
He was standing at the tree line, maybe ten feet from me. Still. Completely, unnervingly still, in the way that very dangerous things go still when they are deciding whether something in front of them is worth their attention.I decided immediately that I did not like him.He was tall. Unreasonably
I walked through the crowd and the crowd parted. For the first time since I was five, I wasn’t invincible. I heard the whispers start behind me as I moved. Heard my name. Heard his. Heard the word traitor the way I’d been hearing it my whole life, like a sound they made without even thinking anymor
They always said the mate bond felt like coming home.They lied.It felt like a knife.One moment I was standing in the crowd, invisible as always, just another body pressed against the edges of the pack gathering. The next something cracked open inside my chest. Warm and violent at the same time,












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