Sophia Rose

"It's over. I reject you, Avery Kingsley." Her fiancé James publicly severs their bond. Her sister Amelia relishes her downfall, sneering, "Poor Avery—always the victim," While her father disowns her with a slap, snarling, "You've made us weak." Avery flees to the shadows of the Midnight Pack, determined to rebuild her life as a nobody. 
But fate refuses to let her hide. A chance encounter with an injured white wolf in the moonlight binds her to Dylan Hawke—ruthless Alpha of the Bloodmoon Pack, a man cloaked in secrets and simmering vengeance. Unbeknownst to Avery, their connection runs deeper than she could imagine: Dylan is her second chance mate.
Julian Thornton, the Alpha of the Midnight Pack and her sister's fiancé, offers her protection—and a spark of attraction that threatens to unravel everything.
As war erupts among the Three Packs, Avery is thrust into a lethal game of poisoned alliances and family secrets. What shadows bind her to Dylan's fractured soul? And can she trust her own heart when torn between Dylan's possessive claim and Julian's forbidden allure?

Alpha's Rejected Mate

　　The bar, usually a boisterous symphony of clinking glasses and raucous laughter, was tonight a subdued hum, a lone piano melody drifting lazily from the corner.


　　I wiped down the already spotless counter, lost in a reverie of past patrons. There were the noisy group of construction workers who always ordered rounds of cheap beer and regaled me with tales of near-misses and mishaps. Their laughter, loud and infectious, had once sent a stack of glasses tumbling to the floor, a minor catastrophe that somehow only added to the jovial atmosphere.


　　Greg has been chill with it because he took had found the jokes and story amusing. He hadn't even seemed to mind at all.


　　"I do love it when they come around." He had told me after they had paid for their drinks and left. "They make everything seem like a joke."


CHAPTER 18 The Stranger