Everyone on campus calls him the Wolves' Captain. I call him a mistake I can't stop making. On the night my boyfriend humiliates me in front of the whole campus, I do the one thing nobody expects. I walk straight into the arms of Kaiden Voss, the coldest, most feared team captain Ashbrook University has ever had. One night. No names. No feelings. Just revenge. But Kaiden doesn't let girls walk away from him. And I just became the first one who tried. Now he's hunting me through hallways, sitting in my classes, marking his territory in front of the whole school like I already belong to him. I told myself I'd never be weak again. I told myself love was for girls who don't know their own worth. I'm about to find out if I can survive being wanted by a boy like him, without losing myself completely.

Mira Callahan spent her whole life believing she and Damon Reyes, the Alpha's son, were fated mates. On his eighteenth birthday, her whole world falls apart. His true mate walks out of a bathroom and he claims her in front of everyone. Humiliated, Mira flees her pack for an entire year. Tragedy drags her back home, where she finds a stranger has taken over: the feared Alpha Kane Draven. This time, Mira might actually have a shot at real happiness. That is, until she learns exactly who her true mate is.

My first mate rejected me in front of the whole pack because his father told him to. Two years later I am still the girl nobody wanted, training every day so no one can ever make me feel that small again. Then Alpha Draven decides he wants me for himself, and my father runs before he can take me. We land in Frostbind territory, the strongest pack in the north, ruled by an Alpha everyone is scared of. Ronan Vale does not smile. He does not explain himself. But the second his wolf catches my scent, something in his eyes breaks open, just for a moment, before he shuts it down and walks away like I mean nothing. He is hiding something. I can feel it every time he looks at me and then looks away. I do not need saving. I already learned that lesson once. But Ronan Vale is going to test that promise to myself in ways I never saw coming, and the secret he is guarding could burn both our packs to the ground. This is not a fairy tale. This is a war I did not start, fought for a heart I swore I would never risk again.

I grew up trained like a soldier because my father swore no one would ever hurt me the way rogues hurt my mother. That training didn't stop our own Alpha from looking at me like I was already his. So my father packed our car in the dark, and we ran. We crossed into Stonebrook territory at dawn, and that's where I first saw him — Alpha Kade Sterling, a wall of a man with tired eyes and a little girl who never left his side. Everyone said his mate rejected him and vanished. Everyone said he'd never let anyone close again. He wasn't supposed to be anything to me. I wasn't even eighteen yet. But something in me reached for him anyway, and something in him reached back, even as he fought it with everything he had. Then it all fell apart — a lie, a misunderstanding, a rejection neither of us meant — and I left carrying a secret that would take years to come home. When Kade finally learns the truth, it isn't just his heart on the line. It's mine, and it's a little girl's who never got to meet her father — until the day the past came looking for both of us.

Everyone at the Whitmore estate called Dean Ashford a nobody — a broke driver hired for thirty days to save Vivian Whitmore from a scheming mother and a company on the edge of collapse. He was cheap insurance. A placeholder fiancé, to be tossed aside the moment a richer man came along. Vivian despised him on sight. Another man pretending to love her for a paycheck. What no one knew: Dean was born Dean Calloway, grandson of the most powerful man in the country — and he'd spent seven years running from that name. But when a rival tycoon sets out to bury the only family who ever loved him, and Vivian's mother tries to sell her off to his worst enemy, Dean has one card left to play. He picks up the phone. "Grandfather. I'm ready to come home." The nobody they mocked is about to become the man they can't afford to ignore. And the woman who swore she'd never fall for a liar is about to find out he never lied about the one thing that mattered.