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Ava was never wanted. Her mother died giving birth to her, and her father never forgave her for the cost. While her stepsiblings grew up wrapped in his love, Ava grew up invisible in her own home.
When the pack's mating ceremony reveals her as the fated mate of Rowan, the pack's next beta, she lets herself hope, just once, that she finally matters. He rejects her in front of the entire pack instead.
Weeks later, a powerful Alpha arrives seeking an alliance through marriage, one meant for her sister, not her. But when he catches her scent by chance in the woods, fate overrules every plan her family made. He refuses the engagement in front of the whole hall, uses his alpha command to find her, and claims her as his true mate before she's even had time to process what's happening.
Suddenly Ava is a Luna, thrust into an alliance marriage with a man the entire region fears and respects. He's fiercely protective of her from day one, shielding her from a rising rogue threat and a family that never wanted her to have this. But he's also grieving a mate he lost long ago, and neither of them expected to find love this fast, or this hard.
As they build a life together inside his territory, love grows in the space marriage was supposed to skip, slow and uncertain at first, then undeniable. Ava finally gets to be chosen, protected, and cherished, everything her first rejection convinced her she'd never have.
Some wolves reject what they don't understand. This Alpha claimed her anyway.
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