They said the Moon Goddess never makes mistakes.But the night Aria Hale is chosen as Alpha Kade Blackthorn’s mate… he rejects her. Publicly. Brutally. Without hesitation.Humiliated and heartbroken, Aria flees the Mating Ceremony—only to collapse as lightning splits the sky and a glowing crescent mark burns into her skin. When she awakens, everything has changed. Her wolf is stronger. Her senses sharper. And her presence… dangerous.Whispers spread that she’s cursed. The Elders want her gone. But buried deep in the pack’s history is a secret bloodline—one older than the Alphas, one the Moon Goddess never meant to forget. And now, it’s waking inside her.Kade wants nothing to do with her… until the bond he thought he broke begins to unravel his mind. His chosen mate grows cold, while Aria glows brighter each day. The pack is divided. Power is shifting. And Kade can’t explain why he dreams of the mark he rejected—night after night.But Aria isn’t the girl who cried in the dirt that night.She’s rising.And she’s not here to be claimed.She’s here to reclaim what was stolen. #