She was supposed to spend the holidays with her best friend.Not fall into the arms of the one man she could never touch.When Elara Hayes arrives at the powerful Thorne Pack’s mountain lodge for the holiday celebrations, she expects warmth, comfort, and family. Instead, she’s met with the cold, devastating presence of Alpha Cassian Thorne Harper’s father, the pack’s feared leader, and a man mourning a mate he can’t move on from.Cassian has rules.Boundaries.A reputation for being untouchable.But Elara has changed since the last holiday she visited, who has been grown, shifted, awakened something inside him, and he has no right to feel. She shouldn’t smell this good. She shouldn’t look at him like that. She shouldn’t make his wolf act like she belongs to him.And yet every time she enters a room, Cassian’s control fractures.What begins as tension becomes hunger…Hunger becomes obsession…And obsession threatens to consume them both.But their desire is forbidden.Taboo.A betrayal waiting to happen especially if Harper discovers the truth.With the lodge snowed in, pack traditions forcing intimacy, and Christmas magic stirring trouble, Elara and Cassian find themselves trapped in a holiday they never meant to share… and unable to stay away from each other.He’s her best friend’s father.Her Alpha.And the one man her body can’t stop craving.This holiday, one secret touch could ruin everything or ignite a passion that was destined long before either of them dared to admit it.A dark, addictive, and deliciously forbidden wolf romance.Possessive Alpha. Tempted good girl.Holiday heat that melts the snow.