Fated to the Alpha who killed my sister
She came to kill him. He was supposed to be her enemy. But the bond they built on lies might be the only real thing either of them has ever had.
Zara Merrick has one mission: seduce the Alpha who murdered her sister, earn his trust, and drive a silver blade through his heart.
She endures an agonizing ritual that rewires her very biology — altering her scent, implanting false recognition signals, creating an artificial mate bond designed to make the most powerful Alpha in the region believe she is his fated one. She walks into his territory like a weapon wearing a woman's face, and it works perfectly.
Ryker Bloodmoon falls for it completely.
Or so she thinks.
Because Ryker has secrets too — secrets about the night Mia Merrick died, about what her sister really was, and about the truth The Covenant has been hiding from Zara for five years. And when his Beta runs her blood and the lie unravels, Ryker doesn't kill her.
He keeps her.
Now Zara is a prisoner in the fortress she came to destroy, hunted by the organization that sent her, and haunted by the possibility that everything she believed about her sister — about werewolves, about the war she dedicated her life to — was a carefully constructed lie.
Worse, the fake mate bond is dissolving.
And what's replacing it feels terrifyingly real.