The Packless Mate

Three years without a pack has left Ayla Marsten fraying at the edges — sleepless, half-feral, working the door of a neutral-ground bar between three rival wolf territories. Then Pinegrove's Alpha slides a photograph of her chained brother across her bar and names his price: her, as his mate, in two weeks. Her only leverage is Nolan Blackmere, a foul-mouthed Alpha who agrees to a one-month provisional bond. Genuine enough to fool every nose in the mountains. Genuine enough to ruin them both.