Deborah Benjamin
Noa Bennett is twenty-four, curvy, wolfless, and the embarrassment of her family. At the Moon Ceremony, the most feared Alpha in the Northwest walks into her life, a golden thread lights between them, and he rejects her in front of two hundred wolves.
That night the moon turns gold. Noa’s wolf wakes. Her bread heals a dying child. And the old healers whisper a word nobody has spoken in three hundred years. Hearth Wolf. The council that wanted her broken now wants her kept, and the Alpha who threw her away is dying of a silver wound that only her hands can ease.
He says he rejected her to save her life. She says he should have asked. Someone in his house feeds his poison a little every night, and a hall full of wolves is waiting to see whether the rejected mate will kneel or rise.
Now Noa has to decide who to heal, who to trust, and whether a bond broken in public can ever be mended in private.
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