Sophia Carter built her real estate empire from nothing.She learned early that in a world ruled by werewolves, humans without power are meant to be crushed.Adopted, discarded, and treated as an outsider by the very family that raised her, Sophia clawed her way to the top through ambition, intelligence, and sheer will. But money means nothing without pack protection, and when a rival werewolf company destroys her final chance at securing a billion-dollar territory contract, Sophia realizes one brutal truth:She needs a powerful name beside hers.And there is no name more feared than his.Adrian Viremont, the Alpha family’s second son, he is known as the Bloodhound of the North, the monster sent to punish anyone reckless enough to cross the Viremont pack. Cold, emotionless, and terrifyingly loyal to his elder brother, Adrian was raised to be a weapon.... not a man.He was taught never to desire. Never to want. Never to take.Especially not the Alpha’s throne.So when the sharp-tongued human businesswoman he can’t stand proposes a fake marriage contract, Adrian should refuse.Instead, he says yes.What begins as a calculated alliance for power soon spirals into dangerous obsession, deadly pack politics, betrayal, and a love neither of them was ever supposed to feel.Because the Alpha family’s Bloodhound was never meant to want anything.Until her.