BLURB On the night Chloe Maxwell was supposed to become Brad Armstrong's chosen Luna, she walked into his office and found him buried inside Vanessa, her best friend of eight years. Worse, the two had just discovered they were fated mates, a bond no chosen mate could compete with. Humiliated in front of two hundred wolves, Chloe fled into the night, only to step into a broken elevator with Eric Stone, the most feared Alpha in the eastern territory. The Mating Moon did the rest. By morning, Chloe was marked, claimed by a man whose name alone made senior Alphas choose their words carefully. To save her from a vicious collector who hunts unclaimed marked wolves, Eric offers a way out: a contract marriage. Nothing real. Just protection until the danger passes. But the moment Chloe signs her name, Eric's expression changes. Maxwell. The same surname belonging to the man Eric has spent fourteen years blaming for the massacre that turned him into a monster everyone fears. Now bound by a mark neither of them can undo, a contract neither of them wanted, and a pull neither of them can fight, Chloe and Eric are forced into a marriage built on secrets, vengeance, and a fire that refuses to die. As old enemies resurface and a buried conspiracy comes to light, Chloe must decide who she is becoming, and Eric must decide if fourteen years of hatred is worth losing the only person who has ever truly seen him. 18+. Contains explicit content and mature themes.

Jade Langford ran from Declan Cross two years ago when he tried to buy her like property, the price of her father's debt. She built a quiet life as a hockey team's doctor, far from his money and his cage. But Black River Wolves just got a new owner, and the second she walks onto the ice, the bond she never asked for slams into her chest. Rafe Colton, the team's brutal Alpha captain, is everything she should run from. He's also engaged to Declan's daughter. When her dying mother drops a secret that could make her and Rafe blood relatives, their bond becomes a sin neither of them can confess. Jade falls pregnant before the truth comes out, and when Declan threatens to use the scandal to destroy them both, she vanishes again, this time carrying Rafe's child. But some bonds refuse to stay buried, and some lies are built to collapse the moment someone finally asks the right question.