JamieWeese
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The Alpha's Mate
Lillian Crawford has spent six years learning how to disappear. In a house that reeks of stale beer and broken promises, she's mastered the art of silence until she overhears her own father negotiating her sale to a stranger. Cash first. Friday. And she's yours.
She runs that night with nothing but a duffel bag, her mother's necklace, and a coffee can of hidden tips, straight into a forest that swallows her whole.
Three days later, half-dead from exhaustion, she wakes in a room that smells like clean linen instead of cigarette smoke. She's been found by Xavier, Alpha of Crystal Springs and the moment his wolf laid eyes on her, one word echoed through him with the force of law: Mine.
Werewolves are real. She is his fated mate. And breaking pack law to save her was only the beginning of everything Xavier is willing to risk.
But safety has a price. As Lillian learns to trust a world of Gammas, Elders, and ancient bonds, a rival warrior quietly builds a case to destroy her standing before she can claim it using nothing but the truth, aimed with surgical precision at exactly the right ears.
A human liaison edges closer to a secret that could expose four hundred and fifty hidden lives. And just when Lillian starts to believe she's finally safe, the past she ran from finds her in a mall parking lot and drags her into a cage far more dangerous than the one she escaped.
Now Xavier must choose between the law that protects his pack and the mate he refuses to lose, while the people who love her, a loyal Gamma, a fierce best friend, a devoted Beta, race against a clock only they can feel ticking.
The Alpha's Mate is a slow-burn paranormal romance about survival, found family, and the terrifying, exhilarating cost of finally being wanted, not for what you can give, but for who you are.