She gave up her name to protect her brother. She didn't plan to want her husband.

Ivara Voss is many things: a trained pack mediator, the daughter of a dead Beta, the keeper of a secret identity that has shaped the Northern Territories' most critical borders. She is not, by any plan she made, a woman who falls for the Alpha she was contracted to marry.

Dominic Hale leads Ravenhollow Pack the way his father taught him — with authority, distance, and the certainty that sentiment is not strategy.

An arranged marriage. A true mate bond neither of them expected. And a pack world about to discover that the Alpha's wife is not who anyone thought she was.

The deal was simple: she protects her brother's future. He fulfils a political obligation. No feelings. No complications.

Then she walks into his council chamber with the right documents at exactly the right moment, and Dominic Hale starts to look at the woman he dismissed like he's been wrong about everything.

The question is whether he can become the man she deserves — before the secrets she's kept come for them both.