LOGINSelene Ashford has spent her life on the run. Raised in the shadows of the Unclaimed Lands, she learned early that trusting a pack means trusting a leash. When rogue hunters slaughter a border patrol and plant evidence pointing to her, she's captured and dragged before Alpha Kael Voss of the Ashwood Pack — a man whose name alone makes grown wolves kneel. Kael has one job: execute the girl responsible for his warriors' deaths. Instead, the moment her scent hits him, his wolf goes silent with recognition. She is his mate — the one bond even an Alpha cannot break. But Kael has buried his heart before, and the timing of her arrival is too convenient, too dangerous. Someone wants her inside his pack. Someone wants her dead. As Selene fights to prove her innocence and resist a bond she never asked for, she uncovers a truth that could unravel the entire wolf world: her blood carries the mark of a bloodline believed extinct for two decades — a bloodline Kael's own father may have helped destroy. Between rival packs circling for war, a Lycan enemy who remembers her family's name, and a love neither of them can outrun, Selene must decide whether the mate bond is her salvation or the very trap that will finally catch her.
View MoreKael crossed the room in three strides and took the parchment from Marcus's shaking hand. Selene watched his face as he read it — watched the colour drain from beneath his tan, watched his jaw lock so tight a muscle jumped along it."What does it say?" she demanded.He didn't answer immediately. He read it twice, like he was hoping the words might rearrange themselves into something less catastrophic the second time through."Kael.""It's a list," he said finally, voice flat with the particular calm of a man holding himself together by sheer force of will. "Names. Locations. Every safehouse, every rogue camp, every hidden family my father's network ever documented over thirty years of hunting the Ashford bloodline." He looked up, eyes gone hard as flint. "Vale says he's not sending it as a threat. He's sending it as proof that he already knows everything — including that you're not the only Ashford left alive."Selene's chest went cold. "What?""There's a second name," Marcus said qui
"One of us won't survive it." Kael's words hung in the air between them, and Selene felt the ground tilt beneath her feet all over again."Explain that," she said, voice low and dangerous. "Right now."Kael's jaw worked, gaze flicking to the wolves still gathered around them in the courtyard, ears straining despite the pretence of looking away. "Not here.""You don't get to keep doing this." She stepped closer, close enough that the pull of the bond hummed insistent and furious beneath her ribs, twisting fear and longing into something almost unbearable. "Every time something matters, you say not here, not now, later — and I am done waiting for the version of the truth you decide I'm ready for."Something in his expression cracked — not anger, but exhaustion so deep it looked like grief. "Come with me," he said quietly. "Please."The please undid something in her more than any command could have. She followed him through the house, past pack members who quickly found reasons to be els
"Get behind me." Kael's voice dropped into something Selene had never heard from him — not a command, but pure animal instinct, the words barely human anymore."I'm not hiding in a cellar with a dead body," she shot back, already moving toward the stairs. "If someone's coming for me, I want to see them coming.""That's not—" He caught her wrist, and the jolt of contact silenced whatever protest he'd been about to make. For a heartbeat they simply stood there, gold eyes locked on hers, the bond thrumming so loud between them it drowned out even the sound of the approaching footsteps. "Fine. Stay close. Do exactly what I say.""I make no promises."Something that might have been a strangled laugh escaped him, entirely inappropriate for the moment, and then his expression hardened back into ice as they climbed the stairs together.The courtyard outside had gone eerily still. Pack members lined the perimeter, half-shifted, teeth bared toward the tree line where a single figure stood at th
The scream had come from below the west stairs, and by the time Selene caught up to Kael, half the pack house was already awake, doors flying open, wolves spilling into the corridors in various states of undress and alarm."Where?" Kael barked at the first guard he passed."Cellar, Alpha. It's—" The guard's face had gone pale, his voice unsteady. "It's Miriam. The kitchen girl."Selene's stomach dropped. The girl who'd brought her food. The one who'd whispered about the Ashford line before fleeing down the hall as she'd said too much.She pushed past two startled pack members and followed Kael down the narrow stone steps into the cellar, where a small crowd had already gathered around something on the floor, lantern light throwing jagged shadows across the walls.Miriam lay crumpled between two wine racks, throat torn open, blood pooling black across the stone. Her eyes were still open, fixed on nothing.Selene's hand flew to her mouth. She'd spoken to this girl twenty minutes ago. Sh












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