Five years ago, Elena ran from her own wedding rather than marry the man her family had chosen for her, leaving her pack behind and swearing she would never return to that life.She kept that promise until a routine emergency call ended with her being kidnapped by armed werewolves and taken to Blackridge Heights, where she found herself standing before Kael Blackthorn, the ruthless Alpha who ruled the city’s most feared criminal organization.Elena expected threats, perhaps even death, but she never expected Kael to look at her as though he had finally found the one person he had been searching for.Then his wolf spoke inside his head.Mine.Kael had never believed in fated mates, and Elena had never even awakened her wolf. Yet from the moment they met, neither of them could walk away from the bond pulling them together.And when the secrets Elena left behind five years ago begin to surface, she will have to decide whether Kael is the danger she should escape from—or the only man capable of protecting her from the life she thought she had left behind.