He called her nothing. Now he stakes his entire empire to claim her as his.Five years ago, Elara Quinn's fated mate rejected her in front of the entire pack. Kieran Wolfe Prime Alpha of Blackwood and Billionaire CEO of Wolfe Global looked her in the eyes and said: "You are weak blooded. You are nothing."She fled, broken. She was already pregnant and didn't know it.Now, Elara is back as a human ER nurse, hiding a 4 year old secret: Lyra, a little girl with her father's ice blue Alpha eyes. The first female Alpha born in 200 years a bloodline that can make Alphas kneel.To save her dying pack from debt, her father sells her in an arranged marriage to rival Alpha Darius Kane. At her engagement gala, Kieran returns.He crashes her wedding and invokes the Impossible Claim an ancient, forbidden werewolf law. He forfeits his entire $12 billion fortune and his life to the Council to prove she is his true fated mate. He has 30 days to earn her willing consent. If he fails, he dies.She refuses to be owned by any Alpha. He refuses to lose her again.But Darius doesn't want a wife he wants to breed her sacred White Alpha bloodline. And Kieran's family, the Volkov Bratva Mafia, just discovered Lyra exists. They will kill anyone to control the child who can command Alphas.He says: "You are mine."She says: "I will never be owned."Their fight becomes a battle of wills, desire, and secrets. Because the real danger isn't who Lyra's father is... it's what she is becoming.

Avery Collins has her life exactly the way she likes it organised, safe, and on track. Then a beat-up black truck pulls into the empty house next door, and Zane Holloway steps out: tattooed, unreadable, and completely at odds with everything she's planned for herself.Forced together for a school project, Avery starts to see what no one else bothers to look for — the boy reading poetry alone in the library, the son driving his sick mother to the hospital at midnight, the person quietly holding everything together while falling apart inside.Falling for trouble was never the plan. But some people are worth every risk.