Anna Bennett, hidden heiress of Crimson Moon Pack and runaway daughter of an Alpha, is chosen as a bride for Alpha Luca Morales after his fated mate Felicia is given to another pack to settle her father's debt. Luca accepts Anna out of duty and ignores her for six years. She feels the mate bond alone — a constant, aching pull he cannot hear. When Felicia returns widowed, Luca asks for a divorce. Anna agrees on one condition: thirty days of him pretending to love her — closure she tells herself she needs, and a test she does not admit she is running. After their one real night together, Anna thought Luca was finally seeing her after six years but she quickly realized how wrong she was. Before Day 30, she signs the papers and disappears completely. Three years later, Luca sees her at an inter-pack business summit — confident, powerful, flanked by three powerful Alphas whom he assumed to be her lovers. The mate bond, which has been screaming in him since the morning she left, sharpens to a blade. He spent three years searching. She spent three years building. Now she is no longer invisible. And she will not be won easily.

"We should not be doing this. Ashley could..." "Shhh," he growled softly, leaning his forehead against mine. "You have no idea how hard this is for me, April.” He lifted a hand, fingers grazing my arm before tugging me closer. “Knowing we shouldn’t be together makes me want you more.” His warmth pressed in, his body an anchor I both wanted and wanted to escape. Sparks in every small touch. I was drowning in it. After a devastating betrayal on her eighteenth birthday, April Watson drowns her sorrows in a night of passion with a devastatingly handsome stranger, only to discover he's the one man in the world who is completely off-limits: her best friend's workaholic father, Leo Wayne.