"You smell odd." He murmured, as if he were speaking more to himself than to her.   "You're smaller than most betas." He continued, his voice holding a trace of amusement. "Are you sure you'll survive here, little one?"  She forced a smirk, lowering her voice to match the roughness of a male's.    "I can handle myself."     "We'll see." Jolene Shining was never meant to have a choice. Born to a beta family and bound by a contract written before she was born, she was fated to marry the ruthless Alpha Bastian? a man known for breaking his women rather than loving them. But Jolene refuses to be caged.  On the night of her wedding, she does the unthinkable. She disappears into the night, cutting away her past along with her name. Disguised as her deceased twin brother, she infiltrates Agua Academy, the brutal training ground for future Alphas. Her only goal is survival.  But survival becomes complicated when she is forced to share a dormitory with Ronan Voico, the heir to the most powerful pack in the region. Ronan is cold, calculating, and too perceptive for her own good. Worse, when they fight, when they touch, and she feels the pull. The undeniable, soul binding call of the mate bond.  Ronan doesn't know who she really is. He doesn't know she is the woman fated to be his. But he wants Silas. Jolene realises the real danger isn't just being exposed. It's losing her heart to the one man who was never supposed to be hers.  And when the truth finally shatters their fragile world, Ronan will have to choose between his duty or desire.

"You really don't give up, do you?" He asks, amused. My blood runs cold as he grabs my wrist, pulling me onto his lap. The audacity of this man! "I should kill you, Love." He murmurs, running his lips against my neck. "But I won't." For centuries, the Rheyan Pack has demanded a blood sacrifice of ten humans thrown into the raging waterfall to appease the goddess Mawu. None have ever survived. Until Love Cyllan.  Saved by a mysterious stranger, Love refuses to live in hiding. She has one goal, to kill the ruthless Alpha, Hanma Rheyan, and take revenge for the innocent lives lost. But infiltrating his home is only the beginning. The more she tries to end him, the more he seems to enjoy the game. And the more time she spends in his world, the more she questions everything she thought she knew about him, about the Rheyan Pack, and about herself.  When Hanma marks her, the truth is revealed. Now with the goddess's wrath upon them and the pack demanding blood, Hanma must make an impossible choice. Will he kill his human mate? A woman who he has grown to love and admire, or will he forsake his people to protect the one he was meant to lose?