Lina Brooks is 22 years old. She loses her job, and her mother is very sick. The hospital bills keep growing, and she doesn't know what to do. One day, a rich businessman named Damien Blackwood gives her a strange offer. "Marry me for one year, and I'll pay all your mother's bills." Lina wants to say no. But she has no other choice. What she doesn't know is that Damien hates her family. He believes her father destroyed his family's life many years ago. He wants this marriage to be his revenge. But as they spend more time together, Damien starts to see that Lina is kind, honest, and nothing like the person he imagined. Will revenge destroy them, or will love change everything?

Ivy Calder has one rule for surviving Blackthorn Woods after dark: don't stop walking. She breaks it the night she finds a bleeding stranger in the frost, his eyes gone amber, his voice half growl. Rowan Ashworth says he's been dreaming of her for eleven years — and that the wolf inside him doesn't care that he's spent all eleven of them staying away. When the bond between them ignites, it doesn't just upend Ivy's life. It draws the attention of a pack with old scores to settle, a rival alpha who wants Rowan's territory, and a secret about Ivy's own bloodline that neither of them saw coming. Fated. Forbidden. Unfinished business eleven years in the making.