Book three of the Forgotten series ~ Weakness is not allowed in the Mountain packs. Living in the mountains, away from civilization and away from the eyes of mundanes. The Mountain packs are harsh and brutal. Shifter against shifter. Pack against pack. Wolves against wolves. All fighting for the same thing. Survival. Azrael Thorn was a powerful Alpha. He had taken his title by force, as tradition dictated. Power and authority of the Alphas and shifters who had challenged him and lost radiated off of his tall, bulky frame. He was dangerous and he was everything an Alpha of a Mountain pack should be. Yet he had no mate or family to call his own. But a mate who could not stand the bitterly cold winters or the brutality of the pack would not produce strength. It would only bring weakness. Weakness is not allowed in the Mountain packs. ~ If the pain stops, it means you are dead. Lace Owens is underestimated at every turn. Her small and delicate built matches her name but the power of defeated enemies hang off her heavily. A power and an authority that would bring many men to their knees if they sensed it, hangs off of her like an oppressively dark cloud but she hides it carefully. Unwilling to let anyone see just how powerful she has become. Her skin is marked with a painful past and she has turned a thing of cruelty into a thing of beauty with her blade. Swirling patterns adorning her skin, hiding the cruelty among her willing pain, her only comfort against the world around her. If the pain stops, it means you are dead. ~ Two world collide as Azrael and Lace form a bond and spiral down into unfamiliar territory where Azrael is shown that strength doesn't always come from size and Lace learns that love can spring from even the most painful places. Together they show the werewolf world a long held belief still stands strong. Weakness is not allowed in the Mountain packs. ~

She has no past. No wolf. No scent. And now-no choice. When a young seemingly alpha wolf is found unconscious at the edge of Boronduin territory, the pack knows something is deeply wrong. Pursued by savage wolves, shifted into wolf form far too early, the girl remembers nothing of who she is or where she came from-only that she's drawn to the silent forest that seals off the rest of Erisdar Valley, where no one dares to go. Years later, Alexandra-now the adopted daughter of the Alpha pair-is the only remaining heir after their son mysteriously vanished near the wall of trees in the feared Erisdar forest. But without a wolf of her own, she is not an elligible heir, to her relief. When a foreign pack arrives with a mate claim designed to seize her hand-and through it, her homeland-Alex senses a deeper plot at play. Her parents, strangely unlike themselves, refuse to listen. Controlled by magic she cannot yet break, they leave her with only one option: remove the key to the enemies plot - herself. But as she makes her desperate bid for freedom, she is intercepted-first by those who would control her, then by something far more dangerous. From the shadows of the ancient forest, a dark legend comes to life: a silent beast cloaked in mystery, known only in whispers and fear. When her friends are struck down trying to protect her, Alex does the unthinkable-she surrenders to the creature to save them. Taken beyond the valley and into unknown lands, Alex finds herself deep in enemy territory where myths breathe, shadows speak, and truths long buried begin to rise. As she uncovers secrets about the forest, the beast who took her, and even herself, something ancient stirs within her-something powerful and long-silenced. But peace cannot last. Her forgotten past is catching up to her-and with it, a destiny that could shape the fate of her beloved valley, her pack, and her new family.