Lila Carter has spent her whole life being treated like a mistake. Born from an affair her father never forgave, she grew up invisible beside her golden half-sister, Elena, the daughter who was loved simply for existing. On the night she finally finds her mate, Lila believes everything is about to change. Instead, Kieran Blackwood, the future Alpha and Elena's intended, rejects her in front of the entire pack and chooses her sister instead. Cast out with nothing, Lila disappears and rebuilds herself from scratch, becoming one of the youngest trauma surgeons in Copenhagen and burying a secret she doesn't even fully understand about herself. Five years later, Damien Blackwood, Kieran's cousin and a ruthless Alpha with an empire to protect, offers her a deal: one year as his contracted wife in exchange for money, protection, and a life she chooses for herself. Lila signs, thinking it's simply a transaction. What she doesn't know is that Damien has been searching for her for three years, not for politics, but because she is the last living heir to a bloodline every powerful pack has spent centuries hunting. As the contract deepens into something neither of them planned, old betrayals surface, and Lila must decide whether the love finally being offered to her is real, or just another price on her blood.

When Stephen walked away without warning, Eberta lost her marriage and found out she was pregnant with his child. Five years later, fate throws them back together, and the truth about their divorce starts to unravel. The man she blamed. The reasons she was given. All of it was a lie. Now, with Rufus holding the answers she's been chasing, Eberta must decide: protect the life she's rebuilt, or risk everything to reclaim what was stolen from her.