Ten years in silver. One touch to wake the wolf.
Elara Nightshade was ten when the Ashford Pack burned her home and locked a silver collar around her throat. Since then, she has scrubbed the floors of Moonstone Lodge on her knees, her wolf silenced, her name forgotten, her eyes always on the ground.
Then Alpha Ronan Ashford comes home from war, and the Moon Goddess does the unthinkable.
She names the slave his fated mate.
Ronan is bound by pack law, a royal betrothal and a treaty that keeps thousands of wolves from war. Before the whole pack, he does the one thing that can't be undone. He rejects her.
But the bond won't die. It burns in her wrist and gnaws at his wolf. It drags the Alpha to the kennels in the dead of night, begging for a forgiveness he doesn't deserve.
Now a secret older than both their packs is waking. A curse is hollowing out the Ashford wolves, one by one. A poisoned cup is slowly killing the Alpha. And a mother with bloodstained hands has been hiding the only cure for ten years, locked in the girl she chained.
Elara can break the curse, but only if she lets the man who broke her stand beside her.
Can a slave forgive the Alpha who looked away? Can an Alpha earn a love he threw away? And when the blood moon rises, who will pay the price?
Perfect for readers who love:
Slave-to-lover romance, rejected mate and fated mates, oppressed heroine rising to power, a fierce, protective Alpha on his knees, forbidden love, hurt/comfort, and werewolf packs full of secrets, betrayal and redemption.
He rejected her in front of the pack. She'll make him earn her in front of the world.