For as long as Isabel can remember, she’s been a rogue. Her parents are deceased; she has no pack, no mate, and no one at all except for her older brother Ben. She’s grown used to being a nobody, the butt of others’ jokes, and for the most part, alone.

But during a routine errand gone wrong, Isabel stumbles onto a pack’s territory and comes face to face with a fierce—and devastatingly attractive—shifter the likes of which she’s never seen or felt.

Isabel is certain this is her mate. But will he accept her, a nobody rogue? Or will he reject her to maintain his status in his pack?

With growing danger at every turn, Isabel finds herself in the center of a desperate war between amassing rogues and a fearsome pack, working not only to uncover the mystery of what happened to her once-happy family, but to win over the man she is certain is the love of her life.

Rejected by the Beta

When I blink, I don’t see it anymore.


But I’m quick to return my attention to Damien. 


When I release him, he steps back but despite his stoic expression, I know he’s hurting inside. It doesn’t take a genius to guess that.


He sits down on the bank and I follow suit, “You okay?”


Picking up a stone, Damien tosses it in the water and I watch it skip over the surface of the water, a long way, before finally coming to a stop. 


“When you’ve lived this long, little wolf, you learn to compartmentalize your grief and your guilt. And so many thousands of years often lead to an uncountable number of regrets.”


He cocks his head, shooting me a quick smile which does nothing to hide the emptiness in his eyes, “Don’t look at me like that.”


I study his profile as this time he summons another rock in his hand, having seemingly forgotten whatever his purpose was in bringing me to this bayou.


Chapter One Hundred and Sixty One