Aria Sinclair was born to lead. Daughter of the Silverwood Alpha, trained to fight since she could walk, she's spent eighteen years proving she doesn't need a wolf to be the deadliest warrior in her pack. What she's never proven is that she has one at all. Damian Blackthorn doesn't lose control. Not to his enemies, not to his court, and never, never to his wolf. As alpha of the North's most feared pack, his grip on himself is the only thing that's kept his people alive since he took the title too young and too alone. Neither of them saw the mate bond coming. One scent of her blood on a battlefield that should have ended in her death instead ends in a mark neither of them chose, binding Aria to the one wolf her pack has hunted for generations, and Damian to the daughter of the enemy that destroyed his family's name a hundred years ago. Now she's a prisoner in a pack house that wants her dead, he's engaged to a woman his pack expects him to marry, and somewhere behind them both, an old lie is waiting to come apart. One that could either burn both packs to the ground, or finally set them free. Fate doesn't ask permission. It just marks you and waits.

She had three goals for her freshman year at Silver Leaf University: survive her classes, make her family proud, and absolutely not pass out when she saw the hottest Alpha in existence sitting three rows ahead of her. But she was failing at all three. After centuries of endless wars, the werewolves finally found peace by forming The Union. Four packs were created under the new agreement: the Prime Pack to rule, the Iron Claw Pack to protect, the Silver Leaf Pack to heal, and the Golden Grain Pack to feed everyone. Each pack depended on the others for survival, and for the first time in their history, the wolves of the Union prospered. Tansy Meadow was a Golden Grain Omega from a farming pack, which meant she was at the very bottom of the hierarchy. The Union might starve without her pack, but that did not stop anyone from looking down on her. Elijah Zenith was the heir to the Prime Pack. He did not speak or interact with anyone except his beta. Even the professors were afraid of him. He walked through campus like he owned it, because one day he would. Tansy was supposed to be invisible. Keep her head down and study. She definitely was not supposed to catch the eye of the most powerful Alpha. However, when a rival Alpha from the Iron Claw Pack transferred to their university, Tansy found herself caught in the middle of a pack rivalry she never asked for, and Elijah was not as cold as he pretended to be. His wolf had been watching her since day one, and he was about to break every rule in the book to protect her. Welcome to freshman year. The Alpha is in your class, and he is not going anywhere.