He rejected her in front of the entire pack — and the reason was more dangerous than anyone could have imagined.Elara Voss has spent eighteen years believing she is the weakest wolf in Silver Moon Pack. Then the Moon Ceremony chooses her mate: Kael Draven, the ruthless Alpha who could have any wolf he wanted.The moment he sees the silver pendant around her neck, he destroys her instead."I reject you as my mate."Four words, spoken in front of two hundred witnesses. Humiliated and heartbroken, Elara flees Silver Moon Pack with nothing but her mother's mysterious pendant — and a bond in her chest that won't stop bleeding.Three years later, she's back. Stronger. Sharper. Done running.But the moment she crosses the border, she realizes her rejection was never about her weakness at all. Powerful Alphas are asking questions about her. Strangers know her name before she's said it. And someone has been watching Silver Moon territory since the night she left.Elara's pendant is the last piece of a bloodline her mother has spent eighteen years hiding — a bloodline powerful wolves would kill to control. And Kael knew it the entire time.His rejection wasn't cruelty.It was meant to keep her alive.Now the people hunting Elara are closing in, and the Alpha who destroyed her in public is the only one standing between her and the truth about what she really is.If Kael was trying to save her... why did he have to destroy her first?

Diana Edward has spent her whole life as the Silver Moon Pack's Alpha's daughter — dutiful, composed, and quietly aware that she's never quite fit the mold of a born wolf. When the fragile truce between Silver Moon and their bloodiest rivals, the Ashwood Pack, comes down to one condition — a mating between the two Alpha heirs — Diana is handed over to seal a peace she never asked for.Edwin Odin, the Ashwood heir, has hated Silver Moon since he was old enough to understand what their war cost him. Cold, controlled, and radiating a fury he refuses to name, he takes Diana as his mate in name only, promising her nothing but the appearance of peace.But something is wrong from the first night. The pull he should feel isn't there — or it is, buried under something neither of them can explain. As Diana is drawn deeper into Ashwood's politics, enemies, and Edwin's guarded heart, an old danger stirs that has nothing to do with the treaty at all.Now Diana must survive a mate who was taught to hate her, a pack that wants her gone, and the truth of what she really is — before it burns both packs to the ground.