Blood Moon Rising

The letter arrives like a death sentence wrapped in expensive paper. My father is dead. The inheritance waiting at Stonehaven-a fortress hidden in the Cascade Mountains-promises answers about the family I never knew. What I don't expect is the mate bond. The moment our eyes meet across the crowded hall, Kai Thorne becomes everything. My fated mate. My future. Mine. Then he rejects me. In front of his entire pack, the Alpha severs our bond with words that tear my soul apart.
He thinks I'm human. Weak. A liability he can't afford. But the rejection doesn't break me-it awakens something dormant in my blood. Something the Council of Alphas has spent twenty years trying to eliminate. I'm Blackwood. The last of a bloodline so powerful they murdered my entire family to erase us. Now I'm learning to fight, to shift, to embrace the Alpha wolf rising inside me. Kai watches from the shadows, tortured by the bond he destroyed, realizing too late that I'm not the fragile human he rejected-I'm exactly what he should have feared.
When rival Alpha Damon Cross offers protection through a forced proximity arrangement, and the Council sends enforcers to finish what they started, Kai must choose: let me face genocide alone, or stand beside the mate he threw away and risk everything for a second chance at fated mates redemption. The blood moon is rising. Revolution is coming. And I'm done being prey. But when the Council's executioner comes for my head, will Kai's regret be enough to save us both-or will his father's sins destroy the future we're fighting for?