Alora Dennison is an orphaned child from a shamed bloodline surviving in her families old pack. On the dawn of her transition pushing her into adulthood she imprints on the mate she will be bonded to for an eternity, in an unexpected turn of fate.
Only he isn't the man of her dreams. He is the only one in the entire state she would never have wanted to bond too.
Colton Santo is the arrogant, dominant son of the Alpha from a rival pack which is set to unite the packs and reign in one kingdom. In years gone by his disdain for her and any from her bloodline has been prominent. Her treatment by his pack has pushed her to live in near isolation, fearful for her existence and now before all assembled, on the dawn of her awakening, they all just saw her imprint on their future leader.
Fate has decreed it, but everyone around her is about to try and stop it.
Fate isn't about to make it easy on her either, as a long forgotten war erupts in their lands, bringing an age old enemy with a thirst for blood back into the forefront of lycanthrope life.
Will she survive long enough to ever find out why she has borne a black mark on her lineage her entire life? And why exactly, Colton's father is just so eager to see her dead.
Will Colton step up and honour the bond, or will he be the one to deliver the final blow?

Awakening Series

<p>/"I hope you're right, for her sake and ours. Jasper is your family, that makes him mine. His place is with his pack, and his mate, whether he accepts Santos or not. Carmen could do with a little good in her life. Not this… not rejection. Not after everything that she has gone through./" He sighs and his sadness for her tinge son my mood too. Colton knows about the baby; he saw it when I shared all my memories, and I felt the pain then that he had for her suffering. The regret at pushing her aside and leaving her behind. As her ex—mate, as her friend, as her Alpha. Colton carries the guilt even now.</p>

<p>I know everything that happened before somehow makes it feel like this is her karma for her sins of the past, but I really don't want it to be. She's not who I thought she was and in the past few days I've begun to understand her a little, see through the armor. I care about her.</p>

The mountain