Tamsin's fated mate rejects her at the market and chooses her sister instead. Her father barely blinks. That night, he tells her she will marry Alpha Bastian Vey, a scarred wolf everyone fears, to save her sick brother.
Tamsin expects a monster. Bastian's hall is cold, his family is cruel, and his Beta watches her like a spy. Then Bastian asks what she wants. No one has ever asked her that.
When Bastian learns their mothers died in the same raid, he gives Tamsin a place beside him. At the pack assembly, he names her his partner before everyone and says her grief is his.
