Rejected by her fated mate on her eighteenth birthday, Elara Stone flees into rogue territory straight into the arms of a scarred, nameless stranger who warns her to stay away. She doesn't listen. One forbidden night later, she's pregnant, disgraced, and out of options. Then the most feared ruler in the werewolf world demands her hand in marriage. Alpha King Damian Ashford doesn't do mercy. He doesn't do mates. But he knows exactly whose child Elara is carrying because he's the stranger she left behind. And he has no intention of losing