Three years abroad could not cure Mara of Ashgrove. Back in the lakeside town where she grew up, she is staying under the Hale roof for Ivy’s wedding when a 2 a.m. kitchen encounter changes everything. Dominic Hale is fifty, silver at the temples, and the Alpha of his pack. His voice moves rooms. Mara is the only one who has never bowed to it.Now a rival Alpha is circling, an old promise is surfacing, and a bloodline Mara never knew she carried is waking up. Every stolen hour brings her closer to the thing that could cost her the only family she has left. She is terrified. She is also desperate to let him ruin her.