"Cursed Blood, Rejected Mate" Mira Ashwood spent her life at the bottom of her pack's hierarchy, until a fated bond marked her as Alpha Kane Voss's mate. For three months, she let herself believe it meant something. Then, in front of the entire pack, Kane rejected her for a bride from a more powerful family — calling the bond nothing more than an accident of fate. Cast out and humiliated, Mira discovers the truth her family buried for twenty-two years: her grandmother wasn't exiled in shame. She was exiled in fear. The Ashwood bloodline carries power the pack has spent a generation trying to forget — and rejection has just set it free. Kane thinks this is over. He thinks Mira will disappear quietly, exactly where he decided she belonged. He has no idea what he just released. I was their curse. Now, I am their punishment.