"My twin sister fell for the vampire. I fell for the wolf. Paul Lahote was fire and fury, danger and destiny all at once-and the second he imprinted on me, my entire world changed, and I finally understood Bella's desire for danger." Bella Swan wasn't the only new girl in Forks. Her twin sister has always been the loud one, the fun one, the one who hides her shadows behind a laugh. She promised she'd protect Bella, even when Bella stumbled headfirst into the dangerous world of vampires. But when heartbreak drives her sister into darkness, she finds herself storming straight into another secret world-the Quileute pack. There, she collides with Paul Lahote, the hotheaded wolf whose imprint turns her entire world upside down. She never believed love was meant for her... until fate refused to let her run.

In La Push, the forest remembers everything. Lark Liora Seabrook was raised knowing the old rules-the ones written in cedar smoke and saltwater, the ones the ancestors still watch from the dark. As the tribe's apprentice healer, she knows how to bless new wolves, how to steady shaking hands, how to listen when the land speaks back. She did not know she would be claimed. On the night Jacob Black shifts for the first time, fate reaches for her-and gets it wrong. The imprint binds him to her... but his heart belongs to someone else. What should have been a sacred joining becomes a quiet wound, one the whole pack pretends not to see. While Jacob chases a ghost named Bella Swan, Lark is left standing in the rain-marked, unwanted, still expected to endure. Enter Paul Lahote: volatile, dangerous, devastatingly beautiful. A wolf with too much anger, a reputation for wreckage, and no belief in forever. He was never meant to be gentle. Never meant to stay. And yet. What grows between Paul and Lark is not sanctioned. Not safe. Not foretold. It is heat and tenderness and choice-the kind of love that dares the old gods to answer back. As the pack turns uneasy and ancient laws begin to creak, Lark must decide what she believes in more: destiny, or devotion. Because loving Paul means risking everything-especially the fear that fate might steal him away the moment she finally feels whole. But the ancestors are watching. And they remember when love is brave. Some bonds are given. Others are earned. Publish date 12/28/25 #1-PaulLahote 12/30/25 #1- BellaBashing 12/30/25 #1- SamUley 12/31/25

Forks was more than just a town to Shella Swan, it was home. After spending three years away in Arizona with her mother and older sister, Bella, Shella returns to the rainy town she never stopped missing. Reunited with her childhood friends in La Push, she soon realizes that not everything stayed the same while she was away. As secrets begin to unfold and tensions rise within the wolf pack, two man who once couldn't stand her start acting strangely around her. Beneath the moonlight of Forks, Shella is pulled deeper into a dangerous supernatural world she never knew existed. Oc x Paul Lahote and Jared Cameron ── ⋆⋅𖤓⋅⋆ ── This story is a slow burn!