Tethered To His Shadow

To survive the massacre of her pack, Kira takes a daily dose of a caustic silver-wolfsbane compound. The toxic chemical mutes her wolf and destroys her scent, but causes severe internal bleeding, chronic tremors, and cold sweats—slowly poisoning her from within. Disguising her face with grease and fake scars, she slips into the militarized Iron-Ridge compound as a low-tier servant, scrubbing bloodied armor just to stay alive. She expects backbreaking labor and isolation. She doesn't expect Cassian, the brutal and hyper-paranoid Blood Alpha who rules the territory. Cassian doesn't trust anyone. When he spots the sickly servant girl clutching her stomach in the intake line, his threat-detection triggers. Smelling only caustic sulfur and human weakness, he suspects she is an undercover spy and drags her to his personal quarters under constant guard. Trapped on his floor, Kira’s health crashes as heavy-metal toxicity pushes her wolf to the brink of death. Forced proximity ignites a suffocating, high-tension cat-and-mouse game between a dying rogue and a ruthless Alpha who can't explain why his wolf thrashes in his chest whenever she is near. When her chemical mask finally fails, Kira must face a terrifying reality: the Alpha hunting her true identity is the one person her wolf is tethered to.