Three years ago, I walked away from the Blackthorn pack and swore I'd never set foot on their territory again. Then my brother called. Come home for my mating ceremony, Wren. Just one night. One night. That's all it took for the moon to ruin my life. Because when Alpha Rhys Blackthorn walked into that clearing — six foot four of scarred muscle and cold gold eyes, the man who owns my brother's loyalty, my brother's rank, my brother's life — my wolf rose up in my chest and howled one word. Mate. He felt it too. I watched it hit him. I watched him look at me like a problem he'd have to solve. Because Rhys is already promised to the daughter of the Ironvale Alpha. That alliance is the only thing standing between Blackthorn and a war it can't win. If I claim him, my brother dies. If I reject him, I lose the only thing my wolf has ever wanted. So I'm going to do what I do best. I'm going to resist. Even when he corners me in the training grounds at midnight. Even when his voice drops low and rough and he says my name like a confession. Even when he tells me the truth that changes everything: "I've had a hundred women in this pack try to get my attention, little wolf. You're the only one who runs. Do you know what that does to an Alpha?" I have twenty-eight days until his alliance mating. Twenty-eight days to survive the pull. Twenty-eight days before I find out what I really am — and why my mother hid me from the packs in the first place. I can resist him.

He doesn't ask. He takes. Cole "Reaper" Kessler runs the Iron Saints with a steady hand and a reputation that clears a bar the moment he walks in. He's lived his whole life on the knife's edge between loyalty and bloodshed, and nothing has ever made him hesitate. Until her. Delphine Whitfield had the perfect life, right up until her husband traded her in for someone younger and left her with nothing but a signed decree and a heart in pieces. She's done with men, done with promises, and done with anyone who thinks she's something to be fixed. She's not his type. She's not his world. But one look at the woman sitting alone at the end of the bar, too proud to cry and too tired to fight, and Cole wants her. Not the version she's pretending to be, but the fire he can see buried under all that hurt. He thinks he can tame her. He thinks she'll bend. He's about to learn that a woman with nothing left to lose is the most dangerous thing on the road. As rival clubs close in and Cole's enemies look for his weakness, Delphine becomes a target, and the man who swore he'd never need anyone has to decide what he's willing to burn to keep her. She was broken. He was trouble. Together, they're a collision neither of them will survive unscathed.

The Alpha sees his mate for the first time and immediately rejects her. She doesn't understand why. Years later, she discovers the reason. His wolf can see fragments of the future. And every future in which he accepts her ends with her killing him. But there's a problem. The future has begun changing. And now he isn't sure whether rejecting her actually prevented his death—or caused the future he feared.