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

Despite telling Balin that I trust him, there is now a fear within me.


I know Arista wasn’t lying since Balin had not refuted her words. Will we be able to run away safely? Will the elves let me go once I have reinforced this barrier? 


There is this sick fear within me that I can’t shake off.


However, I have bigger concerns at the moment.


“I need to hunt, Balin,” I say, insistently. “I’m growing weaker by the day!”


Balin frowns, “I’m sorry, Isabel, but eating meat in the village is frowned upon. Once you become my mate, you will have to give it up.”


“Give it up?” I gape at him. “This is not a personal preference, Balin. I won’t survive without it. I am a wolf shifter at the end of the day. If my wolf dies, so will I!”


“You’re not going to die from a lack of meat,” Balin tells me sternly. “As long as your body has fuel, you will survive.”


“Only barely!” I want to scream at him. How is he minimizing my needs right now?!


Chapter Ninety Seven