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

“Who was that?!” Balin demands as Aldon and Idril take off after Damion.


“I – No one!” I feel alarmed. “He was just talking to me.”


Balin grabs my upper arm in an excruciatingly tight hold, giving me a violent shake, “Tell me the truth!”


“I am!” I wrench my arm back, feeling both angry and just a little terrified of him. “Why would I lie about something like that?!”


The look in his eyes makes my blood go cold and my voice is steadier now, “I just met him. I gave him my food because he looked hungry. That is it.”


Perhaps it’s my cool tone which makes him relax.


He lets go of me and I let out a breath of relief. I don’t know what’s his problem, but I take a step back from him.


His eyes narrow, “What was his name?”


I open my mouth to tell him, but something stops me. Maybe it’s irritation at how he’s treated me this whole day. 


He looks suspicious but finally says, “You’re not to leave the room without one of us.”


Chapter Seventy One