On her sixteenth birthday, Briar Hollis was marked as broken — wolfless, worthless, and the favorite target of Silverpine’s golden heir, Kellan Fenmoor. For years he made sure she never forgot her place.
Then the mate bond hit… and it tied her to the one boy who had spent a year destroying her.
Broken and done, Briar flees to the edge of a waterfall cliff. Ready to end it. Until a voice answers from inside her for the first time — her own wolf — and a scent unlike anything she’s ever known wraps around her.
A deep, commanding voice says the one word that changes everything.
Mate.
King Alaric Nyx has ruled alone for a decade, certain the Goddess forgot him. He never expected to find his mate half a breath from death, wearing another pack’s scars. Now he will make sure no one — not Silverpine, not his court, and especially not the boy who broke her — ever makes Briar feel small again.