Ariana Brooks stopped believing in love the day it shattered her and she promised herself she’d never be fooled again.Jace Carter has spent his entire life fighting for a father who only sees failure where everyone else sees a star.When a fake dating arrangement throws the scholarship journalist and the university’s ice hockey captain together, it should be simple: three months, no feelings, no damage, no consequences.But every staged smile starts to feel real, every fake touch lingers too long and every line between pretending and truth begins to blur in ways neither of them can control.Until jealousy, buried secrets, and a betrayal neither expected explode into their carefully built lie forcing them apart just when they start to mean everything to each other.And when the ice finally cracks beneath everything they thought was real… what happens when the one person you were never supposed to love becomes the only one you can’t lose?

He gave me thirty days to disappear...so I did.For five years, Alpha Kastor Thornwood believed I walked away because I was weak. He never knew I was carrying his son when I left, never knew I built an empire out of the ashes of his rejection, never knew that the little boy with his exact grey eyes has been asking me why his father doesn't want him.Now fate has dragged me, Isolde Marchetti, back to his territory, and Kastor wants answers I swore I'd never give him. His new mate stands beside him, wearing the title that was supposed to be mine. His pack whispers my name like a scandal. And every time our eyes meet, I watch five years of certainty break down. He rejected the mother. He has no idea the son is standing right behind me.How long before he realizes exactly what he threw away and what it will cost him to take it back?