Vera Cassian
Sloane Calloway has spent her whole life fighting her own battles. No family, no one to call when things go wrong. Just her, a job that barely pays rent, and a habit of expecting nobody to stay.
Then a stranger walks into her life by accident and her skin catches fire, not real fire. A mark, burning across her collarbone in front of everyone, glowing like something inside her just woke up after twenty years asleep. His face goes pale. He tells her she's not supposed to exist.
By the next day, two more men find her. Brothers. The mark burns again, worse, for both of them too. Before she can even ask what's happening to her body, someone grabs her off the street in the dark. The brothers get to her in time.
She learns the truth in pieces. She is bonded to all three Marlowe brothers, tied to a curse running out of time in their bloodline. Without her, their family line dies. She feels like a cure, not a person, until she starts seeing the men underneath the need. Griffin's guilt, Cassian's guarded mind, Dax's whole heart, no walls at all.
But a bigger threat is already circling. Silas Cross, alpha of a dying rival pack, wants her too, and not out of love. Then comes the truth that breaks her open. Silas is her father. Her mother hid her at birth to keep her safe from exactly this.
Now war is coming, from an enemy even Silas didn't see turning against him. Sloane must choose who she trusts, who she loves, and what she's willing to fight for, before the people circling her decide for her.
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