Sofia was publicly rejected by her fated mate, Alpha Julian Blackwood, on the night of their mating ceremony. He called her wolf-less in front of the entire pack, unworthy of standing beside him as Luna, and every wolf she had grown up with watched her walk out of the gates alone. She left carrying a secret: Julian's child, the True Alpha heir he did not know existed. When he finally learned the truth, he chose the pack a second time. So she stopped waiting to be chosen and disappeared into the human world to raise her son herself. Five years later, Sofia is a senior strategy consultant in Silverhaven with a corner office, a quiet apartment, and a bright, watchful little boy called Lucas who has never once asked to meet his father. She has built a life that owes Julian Blackwood nothing. Then the mate bond slams back into her chest on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, and Julian is standing across the street, looking at her son. Sofia is not the powerless omega he humiliated. She has awakened as the Star-Blessed, a rare and dangerous line long believed extinct, and she will burn the world down before she lets anyone touch her child. Because someone is coming for Lucas. Julian's uncle Elias and the Shadow Council want the boy as a vessel, and they will take Sofia's career, her home, and her name apart to get him. Forced into proximity for their son's safety, Sofia and Julian circle each other through a slow burn of love, hatred, guilt, and desire, while a traitor smiles at them from inside their own circle and Julian grovels for a woman who owes him nothing. Sofia is done being anyone's second choice. Will she forgive the Alpha who broke her, or make him pay for everything he threw away? A gripping tale of rejected mates, a secret heir, awakening power, pack politics, and a fated love that refuses to die.

froze to death in prison while my husband toasted his mistress. Reborn on our wedding day, I drop the bouquet, walk to his deadliest rival — the Northern Alpha — and say "marry me."