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

Whatever I expected Damien to say, it wasn’t this.


I’ve never heard such sincerity from him and it shakes me to the core. And it also makes me want to believe him.


It’s not like he has a reason to lie to me.


“After Sila, I just didn’t want to go through that again,” he murmurs. “Living this life, this fate is hard on me. You love, you lose, and you keep losing. It’s always been easy for me to keep the Righs, at some level of distance. I gave in with Sila and that was my mistake. I suffered for that even after she was gone. And just after a few meetings with you, it became apparent to me that it was going to be harder with you.”


He runs his hands over his face, looking weary for the first time since I met him. 


“I didn’t think you would notice.”


I simply don’t know what to say right now. There is so much confusion inside of me that I am unable to sort through my feelings right now. My heart is throbbing in pain for both of us.


Chapter One Hundred and Seventy Eight