Jason Richmond was my best friend and crush, but he cruelly rejected me the day I confessed my feelings to him. He left me for Brenda Wayne, my stepsister. Now seven years have passed, but I still find him within my radar, and I realized the past I tried to bury was never gone. The feelings were still there. I had to work as his personal assistant, stay close to him, and fight everything rising inside me. I needed a distraction, and fate brought one to me—Mikel O’ Connor, my new neighbor, the very man I knew loved me. Would I be able to cope in this dangerous game of love as Mikel O’ Connor offers me a contract marriage while my heart still lies with Jason Richmond?

"I'm nothing," I whispered. "You're everything," he said. Then Kael Blackwood, the future Alpha, kissed me. My name is Elara, and for nineteen years, I've been the family's dirty secret. The wolfless daughter. The only disgrace to the mighty Nightshade bloodline. Then came the night of the Alpha's birthday celebration. In front of the entire pack, the Alpha called me a Wolfless Disgrace. I thought that was the worst of it. Then Kael, the future Alpha, followed me into the woods and kissed me. Now my stepsister, Seraphina, has promised to destroy me. In three weeks, she'll be named the Luna of the man I can't stop thinking about.

"Nothing is ever going to be the same after this," I whisper, waking up locked in Asher's gaze. He's my best friend's brother, the hockey star I was never supposed to fall for. But I crossed every line I'd drawn for myself. Asher has decided I don't exist, so I act like I'm not even there. But fate keeps throwing us together, on the ice and off it. How long can I keep pretending I never wanted him?