The night Clara Bennett gets dumped on the side of the road, mascara running down her face and vodka burning in her stomach, she makes a promise every woman has made at least once in her life: One day, he will choke on his regret. What she doesn’t know is that someone is already watching her fall apart. Julian Cross. The boy she never recovered from. The man she never thought would look twice at her. The only person who saw her long before she became beautiful enough for everyone else to notice. Because before the weight loss… before the confidence… before the revenge dresses and stolen attention… Clara was just the girl men settled for in private and overlooked in public. Until suddenly, she isn’t. Now her ex wants her back. Strangers can’t stop staring. And Julian — quiet, dangerous, devastatingly patient Julian — is looking at her like he’s one heartbeat away from losing control. But the more Clara changes, the more terrifying one question becomes: If she was never enough before… how can she trust being wanted now? And Julian has secrets of his own. Because while Clara thinks this is the story of the man who broke her heart— it’s really the story of the man who has been loving her in silence for years. The Weight of Being Chosen is a brutally emotional slow-burn romance about heartbreak, humiliation, obsession, transformation, jealousy, and the kind of all-consuming love that feels equal parts terrifying and irresistible. Perfect for readers who crave aching tension, emotional devastation, possessive devotion, and romance that hurts before it heals.

For twenty-three years Seraphine has lived as a ghost behind reinforced glass. To the Voss Syndicate she is Subject Sera, a biological weapon engineered to be the ultimate cure for the werewolf plague. Her blood is liquid gold to the humans who own her and a death sentence to the wolves who fear her. She has been raised to believe that shifters are monsters and that she is the only thing standing between humanity and extinction.Alpha Cassian Drav does not believe in mercy. He only believes in vengeance. When he leads a brutal raid on the laboratory that destroyed his brother he expects to find a weapon to be dismantled. Instead he finds a woman with cold eyes and a stillness that stops his heart. The moment their eyes meet the ancient bond takes hold. Mate. The realization is catastrophic. Seraphine is a Nullblood, a woman born once per century whose touch causes permanent de-shifting and cellular death in werewolves. She is the only woman fate has chosen for Cassian and the only woman on earth capable of killing him. Now Seraphine is free but her presence is a poison. As the Syndicate launches a global manhunt to reclaim their asset and rival packs demand her execution Cassian must make an impossible choice. He can claim his mate and risk the extinction of his kind or he can destroy the only woman he was ever meant to love. In a world ruled by blood and steel the most dangerous thing of all is a single touch.