I hear alpha step away as another set approaches, a soft, sweet feminine voice brings me back from nearly dozing off. “Hello Cole, my name is Jessa.” Something about her voice calls to me, forces me to lift my head off my arms to look at her, to see her. I slowly lift my head as even it is back to feeling like a ton of bricks have been placed on top of it. I lose my breath briefly as I look into the most stunning silver-blue eyes I have ever seen. I can’t help but cringe, cover my ears and lower my head as my wolf goes berserk, prattling incessantly about finding our mate. I can’t help but feel that even the moon goddess, my one hope for finding a way out of the hell I live in, is taunting me when I’m the lowest I’ve even been since I was fifteen. There’s no way I can accept a mate in the condition that I’m in. I can’t care for her let alone defend her. Alpha werewolves should be cruel and merciless with unquestionable strength and authority, at least that’s what Alpha Charles Redmen believes and he doesn’t hesitate to raise his kids to be the same way. Alpha Cole Redmen is the youngest of six born to Alpha Charles and Luna Sara Mae, leaders of the Red Fang pack. Born prematurely, Alpha Charles rejected him without hesitation as weak and undeserving of his very life. He is reminded daily of his father’s hatred for him paving the way for the rest of his family to become the same. By adulthood, his father’s hatred and abuse towards him has spilled over into the rest of the pack making him the scapegoat for those with the sadistic need to see him suffer. The rest are simply too afraid to even look his way leaving him without friends or family to turn to. Alpha Demetri Black is the leader of the sanctuary pack Crimson Dawn. It’s been years since a wolf has made its way to his pack via the warrior’s prospect program but that doesn’t mean he’s not looking for the tell-tale signs of a wolf in need of help. Malnourished and injured upon his arrival, Cole’s anxious and overly submissive demeanor lands him in the very situation he’s desperate to avoid, in the attention of an unknown alpha. Yet somehow through the darkness of severe illness and injury he runs into the very person he’s been desperate to find since he turned eighteen, his Luna. His one-way ticket out of the hell he’s been born into. Will Cole find the courage needed to leave his pack once and for all, to seek the love and acceptance he’s never had? Content Warning: This story contains descriptions of mental, physical and sexual abuse that may trigger sensitive readers. This book is intended for adult readers only.