I slept with a stranger to forget a betrayal I never saw coming.The next morning, I walked into class and realized I wasn’t done with him.He didn’t act surprised.Neither did I.Now I’m failing a course I can’t afford to lose… and he’s offering me a deal that should fix everything.Private tutoring.Public pretending.Simple rules. Clean lines.But nothing about the way he looks at me feels simple.And the worst part?I think he remembers more from that night than I do.

She thought fate had finally chosen her…until it humiliated her in front of an entire pack. Marked as the Alpha’s destined mate, Jaci was cast aside the moment he decided she was unworthy of standing at his side. Branded weak. Replaced without mercy. The bond that should have protected her nearly destroyed her instead. So she vanished. What the Alpha never learned was that she left carrying more than heartbreak…she carried his heirs. Years later, Jaci returns not as the fragile wolf he rejected, but as the feared leader of a rising rogue faction, her power whispered about in every territory. She wants nothing from the pack that broke her… until enemies close in and her children become targets. Now the same Alpha who shattered her must face a bond that never truly died…one that burns him with agony for every year he lost her. To protect his blood and reclaim what fate never released, he’ll have to kneel, bleed, and beg. But some wounds don’t heal easily… and some second chances come with a price paid in blood.

She had nothing. No wolf. No freedom. No father who gave a damn.So when Lira Voss ended up at a rogue's auction serving drinks to men who bought women like furniture, she did the only thing left available to her.She picked the least dangerous looking man in the room and slipped him a note.Buy me.He read it. Tore it up. And then spent fifty million on her anyway.Talon Vardmir isn't safe. He isn't kind. And he didn't buy her because she asked, he bought her because of a mark on her shoulder that she's carried her whole life without understanding what it means.Now she's in his world, he's in her head, and the thing growing between them is inconvenient for both of them.He needs her.She needs out.But neither of them is getting what they want.At least not yet.