Goldentreee

“He rejected me in front of the entire pack… because she stole my scent.”

Nobody wants a rejected Omega.

Ayla Riverwinddoesn’t care anymore. She's done waiting for fate. As Northmoon Pack’s healer, she’s content in the shadows—until the day her world burns.

Her best friend, ‘Cassia’, uses forbidden scentbinding magic to steal Ayla’s identity and claim her mate—high-ranking Alpha ‘Darius’—as her own. Publicly rejected, shackled in silver, and tortured with wolfsbane, Ayla is cast into a dungeon and marked feral. The rejection was meant to break her.

Instead, it awakens something ancient inside her. When she escapes into the Outlands, Ayla meets ‘Rylan Stormblade’—a rogue healer with secrets carved into his skin and knowledge of a lost ritual that may restore her scent... or kill her.

But Ayla’s scent is no longer just hers. It burns through the bond realm, ripping through the senses of one wolf in particular—’Kael Valerius’, the Alpha King. His wolf goes feral when her scent touches the wind, but he already has a Luna.

Now hunted by Alphas who want her dead, claimed by a King she doesn’t trust, and stalked by a prophecy that says “the next Luna will break the throne or bless it”, Ayla must rise—not as someone’s mate…but as the Luna they tried to erase.

Rejected By The Alpha, Desired By The King

The rogue stepped from the trees like he'd been waiting all night.

His grin was sharp, hungry. His scent was thick with poison and iron. And when his gaze dropped to my neck, I felt it like a claw dragging across my skin.

"You smell like prophecy," he said, licking his teeth. "Like moonlight and old bones."

Kael moved to step in front of me.

The rogue tilted his head. "Let the little queen speak."

"Didn't say I'd claim you. Said I'd take what's in you?"

The trees fell quiet. Even the birds stilled.

Rylan had vanished into the shadows behind us. Watching. Ready. But this was my stand to make.

My wolf bristled, furious. She placed just behind my ribs, snarling to be set free.

12: BLOOD FOR A BOND