There is a version of my life where none of this happened. ….Where my parents are still alive. Where I am just a normal girl in a normal town, worrying about normal things like grades and bad hair days and whether or not the boy in my math class likes me back…..but that is no longer my life. My name is Zara Ames. I am nineteen years old, fully human, and I live inside a werewolf pack. Not because I was born into it or because I earned it,but because the universe decided to rip everything familiar away from me and leave me standing in the wreckage with nowhere else to go. I know what you are thinking. A human in a wolf pack? That sounds like the beginning of a really bad horror movie. Trust me, I thought the same thing two years ago when Aunt Nadia sat me down and told me what she and James and Jeremy really were. I laughed. Then I cried while I watched Jeremy shift into a wolf the size of a small truck right in front of me, and I stopped laughing forever. The Golden Crescent Pack became my home before I even understood what a pack really was. I learned their rules, their values, their hierarchy. I trained with their warriors. I bled on their sparring grounds. I earned my place with bruised knuckles and a stubborn refusal to stay down when I was knocked flat. And I was happy. Not the kind of happy you perform for other people, but the real quiet kind that settles in your chest and stays there. I had a plan too. College. Business school. Taking over my mother's business and turning it into something she would have been proud of. I had mapped out every step and I knew exactly where I was going and exactly who I would be when I got there. What I did not plan for was him. Ryker Cole. Alpha of the Dark Moon Pack. He was young, ruthless, and feared by nearly everyone who has ever been in the same room as him. The kind of man who commands silence just by walking through a door. I did not plan for the way the air shifted the first time I stood near him. I did not plan for the pull that made no sense, the one my body felt before my brain had any say in the matter. I did not plan for the word that rose up from somewhere deep inside me, quiet and certain and absolutely terrifying. *Mate.* And I definitely did not plan for what he did next. He looked me dead in the eyes, in front of everyone, and said the words that changed everything. *"I, Ryker Cole, Alpha of Dark Moon Pack, reject you as my mate."* So here is the version of my life that actually happened. The one where I stopped being invisible and became a target. Where I learned that love and rejection can live in the same heartbeat. Where I discovered that the girl everyone underestimated had more fight in her than anyone gave her credit for. This is my story and I am just getting started.

She got thrown out because she was an Omega. Stuck in some contract and taken by an Alpha who was not supposed to want her at all. Lucia's life basically ended that night when her family just turned away and pushed her into this marriage thing to make her disappear. She had no idea the bond was pulling her to Alpha James from the Full Moon Pack. He is this strong leader everyone fears, but he has all these duties weighing him down. In a pack like the Full moon pack, they hate anything weak, so Lucia is lucky if they just put up with her, but sometimes they hunt her down. Then James starts feeling this pull toward the Omega he was not meant to have, and the whole pack starts cracking from old traditions and all that fear. Lucia is not really what they think though. There is this old power inside her that starts moving. Runes light up when she touches them. Secrets come out about her mom who went missing, some forgotten place she ruled, and a bloodline way older than the pack. Rival packs are getting closer. Betrayal happens inside too. And this arranged mate comes back wanting revenge. Lucia has to deal with a truth that might wreck everything she cares about now. She was never supposed to just bow down. When the moon goddess calls her for real, will the Alpha pick the pack he grew up in, or the woman who is meant to lead them all? It seems like that choice is coming.