They chose her lie over my truth. Now they beg for my love.Wren Ashford was the Luna of Silverfang, loved by three powerful mates. Then their first love, Isolde, came home crying, and every one of them believed her over Wren.She lost her seat, her bed, and her place beside the men she loved. When Isolde threw herself down the stairs and blamed her, they locked Wren in a cell and made her kneel before the entire pack.So she rejected all three of them and walked into the night, carrying a secret they never bothered to ask about.Now the proof is in, Isolde's lies are falling apart, and three broken Alphas are chasing the woman they destroyed.But Wren is not the girl they left behind. Can mates who never fought for her ever earn her back? Or is it too late?

Sie wählten ihre Lüge über meine Wahrheit. Jetzt flehen sie um meine Liebe.Wren Ashford war die Luna von Silverfang, geliebt von drei mächtigen Gefährten. Dann kehrte ihre erste Liebe, Isolde, weinend zurück – und jeder von ihnen glaubte ihr mehr als Wren.Sie verlor ihren Platz, ihr Bett und ihren Platz an der Seite der Männer, die sie liebte. Als Isolde sich die Treppe hinunterstürzte und Wren die Schuld gab, sperrten sie Wren in eine Zelle und zwangen sie, vor dem gesamten Rudel niederzuknien.Also verwarf sie alle drei und ging in die Nacht – mit einem Geheimnis, nach dem sie nie gefragt hatten.Nun liegt der Beweis vor. Isoldes Lügen zerfallen, und drei gebrochene Alphas jagen die Frau, die sie zerstört haben.Aber Wren ist nicht mehr das Mädchen, das sie zurückließen. Können Gefährten, die nie für sie gekämpft haben, sie jemals zurückgewinnen? Oder ist es zu spät?

Lena Hart has one rule for her new life: stay invisible. Her mother has married a rich man, they have moved into his mansion, and the school's most notorious playboy now sleeps down the hall. Kane Draven is her stepbrother, and every girl on campus would happily burn Lena alive for sharing his roof.So she keeps her distance. Then Kane pins her against a locker, eyes glowing gold, and growls one word: "Mate."Kane is not just a heartbreaker. He is the heir to a werewolf pack, and Lena is the one girl he was never allowed to want. As a rival Alpha circles and a dangerous secret about Lena's past comes alive, she must decide whether to run from her fate or fight for it. Because the mate bond doesn't ask permission, and some secrets were buried to keep her alive.

Emilia Ashford's mother had already chosen a stranger's daughter over her weeks before the truth came out loud. Framed for a murder she tried to stop, Emilia spends two years starving in an attic while an impostor takes her name. On her eighteenth birthday, the mate bond hands her one last hope, then shatters it — her own fated mate rejects her in front of the whole pack.With nothing left, Emilia runs straight into the territory of the most feared Alpha alive. Ronan Blackthorn never wanted a mate — but when a blade meant for her finds him instead, there's no more question of distance between them.

At twelve, Amara Bennett learned that some people keep choosing not to come.Her father cancelled her birthday with a text. Her mother pawned her wedding ring to afford it. And her best friend, Lily, gave her a notebook with a desert rose on the cover and a sealed note she could only open on Friday.By Friday, Lily was dead.Now, years later, Amara is still looking for someone who will choose her. Two boys and one girl have promised her everything and given her less each time. She is tired of loving harder, tired of being the one who stays.Then comes Adrian, a man who loves her without asking her to earn it. But Amara cannot trust a love that doesn't hurt. And one torn-out page from Lily's last notebook is still hidden where she left it, waiting for someone brave enough to read it aloud.Some people bloom in gardens. Amara has to bloom in a desert.

Ten years ago, Mara Voss vanished from Cutter's Lake, Vermont — swallowed by a storm, a lie, or something in between. Her best friend, Wren Ashby, gave the police statement that sent a local boy to prison for her murder. Case closed. Town moved on. Life continued.Except now the DNA doesn't match.Wren returns home to cover the story that will unravel everything she thought she knew about that night — and finds that her own memory doesn't hold up to what actually happened. A dock that bends the wrong way. A detail she "remembers" with total certainty that exists nowhere in any file. A text message from a number that dies within the hour, sent by someone who already knew exactly where she was standing.Detective Cole Hargrove is reopening the case his father built — and quietly buried. The closer he looks, the more he suspects his father wasn't protecting a lie so much as running from someone powerful enough to make a thirty-year sheriff too afraid to write a name down.As Wren and Cole dig deeper, they uncover a hidden notebook, a controlling man Mara was too frightened to name, and a phone call two days after her disappearance that raises a question no one in this town has let themselves ask out loud: was Mara Voss ever actually gone?Someone has spent a decade making sure that question stayed buried. And now that it isn't, they're not going to let it stay unburied quietly.