Then she meets Alpha Zayn, the cold, commanding Alpha of the Black River Pack and her father's greatest rival. He's dangerous, arrogant, and exactly the kind of man her father warned her to stay away from. But when rogues attack the venue and chaos erupts, Zayn is the one who saves her life. He fights off wave after wave of attackers until they're forced to hide in the restaurant freezer to escape the carnage. Then the roof caves in above them, and they're trapped inside.
Trapped in freezing darkness with her injuries bleeding out, Cleo has two choices: let herself die or let Zayn heal her. When he shifts to keep her warm and uses his saliva to close her wounds, she knows the consequences. Healing can sire an unshifted wolf, binding her dormant beast to him before she meets her fated mate.
Now every time she's near him, her body reacts like he's already claimed her. Her pulse races. Her skin burns. She tells herself it's just the siring effect, that the attraction coursing through her veins isn't real, that it's just her wolf recognizing the Alpha who saved her.
But when her father pulls pack protection and leaves her exposed, Cleo makes a desperate move. She turns to Zayn for help, and what starts as a forbidden alliance spirals into something she can't control. Living a double life, sneaking across borders, hiding her connection to the one man her father despises, Cleo is playing with fire. The longer she spends in Zayn's world, the harder it becomes to tell where the siring ends and her real feelings begin.
What she doesn't know is that Zayn has been keeping a secret of his own.
She's not just a girl he wants to protect.
She's his fated mate.
When her father announces an arranged marriage to a rival Alpha to secure an alliance, Cleo is forced to choose: accept her father's plans and lose the one wolf who makes her feel truly alive, or risk everything, her title, her pack, her future for a love that could start a war.
And Zayn? He's ready to burn the world down to keep her.
A steamy paranormal romance filled with enemies-to-lovers tension, forbidden attraction, fated mates, forced proximity, pack alliances, and a possessive Alpha who will stop at nothing to claim what's his.