Rejected Mate, Pack of Monsters

She was cast into the valley to disappear. She came with a herbalist's kit, a destroyed notebook rebuilt from memory, and the only diagnosis that could bring him down. She had no idea the monsters were the ones worth saving. When wolf herbalist and Bone-Reader Mira Holt is rejected by her Alpha mate and sentenced to the Culling Ground - a sealed mountain valley where the pack's unwanted are sent to die - she expects to find ruins and despair.
Instead she finds thirty-one survivors, a stream being slowly poisoned, three deaths that don't add up, and a man who has been building a legal case from inside a locked valley for nine years. Erek has no pack title, no official standing, and no family name. What he has is a sixty-year-old territorial charter, nine years of meticulous records, and the patience of someone who has been waiting for exactly the right person to walk through the gate.
She didn't come to trust him. She came to survive. But the deeper Mira digs into the valley's death records, the clearer it becomes: the poison in the water came from the same man who sent her here. Her silence protected him once. Her testimony could destroy him now. In a valley where biology is silenced and every bond must be earned through evidence rather than instinct, trust is the most dangerous thing two people can build - and the most worth keeping.
A slow-burn paranormal romance set in the 1890s Montana frontier. For readers who love rejected mate stories, forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers tension, a fiercely competent heroine, a brooding protective Alpha, and dark pack politics with high emotional stakes. The evidence doesn't lie. Neither does she. Not anymore.