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

Broken plates, spilled coffee, eggs smeared on the floor. 


There’s butter on my boot and jam on my jams. 


Nearly dropping that container of maple syrup last week is nothing compared to the destruction that I just caused.


I dropped an entire tray of breakfasts, and it’s all his fault.


“What the hell, Izzy? You suddenly forget how to do your job?” Clyde asks, shaking his head as he grabs the broom and brush and shoves them into my hand. 


I stoop down and start sweeping the food into the pan, but my attention isn’t on the floor. It’s on him. 


He walked in, alone, and two seconds later, twenty dollars’ worth of food was on the floor. 


“Do it quickly. The rush is about to start, and I can’t have our customers slipping and breaking their neck. God knows we can’t afford a lawsuit,” Clyde grumbles to me as he passes by to greet another group of customers entering the diner.


Chapter Nine