Mara Ashfield doesn’t believe in fate. She believes in flat tires, overdue bills, and the exhausting business of keeping everything glued together on your own.But when her car breaks down on a deserted country road and she stumbles into the wrong woods searching for phone signal, she comes across someone who shakes all her assumptions about the world — and about herself.Damien Voss is Coldridge Pack Alpha. Cold. Powerful. Untouchable. He hasn't had anyone in his life in three years and he has very good reason for that. So when a human female enters his domain bleeding and unafraid and giving him her name like honesty is just something you do – every constructed wall he has starts to crumble.He sends her back to the road.He texts her before dawn.What begins as a warning about something harmful in the woods turns into something neither ever expected, and something neither of them can escape. Because fear didn’t seek out Mara by accident. It sought her out specifically. And the reason why goes back twenty-eight years – to a father she never met, a secret he died protecting, and a dangerous wolf pack who will do anything to make sure that secret remains buried forever.He never wanted a mate.She never wanted a wolf.The woods had other plans.