She saved a stranger in the dark woods.
She didn't know he was an alpha wolf... or that fate had already claimed her.
Aria Vale has spent years disappearing?new towns, fake names, and burner phones are the only things keeping her ahead of the violent man who once tried to ruin her life. Shadowmist Ridge is supposed to be her last hiding place. Quiet. Safe. Forgettable.
Until the night she follows a scream into the forest.
Pinned down by masked men and bleeding out in the dirt is the biggest wolf Aria has ever seen. Acting on instinct, she blows her carefully built cover in one reckless move?saving the beast and drawing a ruthless enemy straight to her new doorstep.
When the wolf shifts into a scarred, breathtaking man at her feet, Aria's world shatters.
Kael Draven, Alpha of the Midnight Crest Pack, has waited years for the mate the moon promised him. The moment he tastes Aria's scent through the haze of blood and pain, he knows:
She is his.
His to protect. His to cherish. His to claim.
But Aria doesn't believe in destiny, let alone fated mates and secret packs of wolf shifters hidden in the mountains. All she knows is that danger follows her?and if she lets this overprotective, infuriatingly magnetic alpha get close, he'll be next on her stalker's hit list.
Kael is done losing the people he loves. He'll burn Shadowmist Ridge to the ground before he lets anyone touch his mate. As the obsessed hunter closing in on Aria strikes a deadly bargain with rogue wolves, the line between predator and protector blurs?and Aria is the key prize.
Now she must choose: keep running alone, or trust the growling, possessive alpha who swears she belongs to him.
He'll fight the world to keep her.
She might have to break her own heart to save his.
Perfect for readers who love:
Fated mates and growly alphas
Human heroines thrown into a hidden shifter world
Stalker danger, small-town secrets & pack politics
Slow-burn tension with explosive, passionate payoff
A guaranteed happily ever after with no cheating and no cliffhanger
Welcome to Midnight Crest, where once an alpha finds his mate... he never lets her go.
