She wasn't looking for a pack. She wasn't looking for a mate. She was just trying to keep her family together.

Raella Thorne has spent years holding everything up — her siblings, her grief, the version of normal she built after losing her mother. She doesn't have room for the impossible.

Then a violent attack lands her in the middle of a wolf pack she never knew existed, and normal stops being an option.

Kael Varyn is an Alpha with a territory to protect and a council that doesn't trust the violet-eyed outsider he's brought into their midst. He knows what she is before she does. And he knows what that means—for his pack, for the bond already pulling at him, and for the enemy that's been hunting her since before she was born.

The closer Raella gets to the truth about her mother, the harder it becomes to outrun what she is.

Some bonds aren't chosen. They're awakened.