The Alpha In the Glass Tower. Rocky Mountain Moon Legacy, #1

A billionaire Alpha owns the glass towers of Denver. His mate runs into the mountains to save strangers. And the wolf inside her has finally begun to wake. Tessa Arden knows what she is supposed to be. Werewolf-born. ER nurse. Mountain search-and-rescue volunteer. The woman who runs toward blizzards, broken bodies, and impossible calls because once, the man she could not save never came home. But Tessa has always carried one quiet shame: she is a werewolf without a wolf.
No inner voice. No shift. No second soul beneath her skin. Just silence. Until a rescue on Vail Pass changes everything. Sebastian "Bash" West is everything Tessa distrusts: billionaire resort owner, private security CEO, polished Denver power, and the secret Alpha of the territory stretching from the city's glass towers into the snowbound mountains near Vail. When a missing tourist, strange blue lights, and a wounded man with impossible claw marks point toward a rival Alpha testing Bash's borders, he has every reason to tighten control.
Then he scents Tessa. Zane, the wolf beneath Bash's skin, knows the truth before Bash is ready to accept it. Mate. But Tessa is not a woman to be claimed, managed, or locked safely behind someone else's power. She has patients to save, a dead friend's mystery to uncover, and a white wolf named Amaris waking inside her with memories the mountain has not forgotten. As danger moves between Denver and Vail, Bash must learn that protecting his mate does not mean caging her.
And Tessa must decide whether the wolf she thought she never had might be the one thing powerful enough to face the Alpha trying to take the mountain. Urban wealth. Mountain danger. Fated mates. Hidden wolves. And a love that must learn to stand beside, not in front.