Best ratings: #1 in #ya, #sexscenes and #mates, #4 in #romance - - - - - PLOT: LILA KING is somewhat notorious in her old wolfpack - as a child she led a rebel crew of delinquents who caused havoc in the reserve and fought vampires. She was one of the best fighters in the pack, but following her best friend's death at 18 she left the pack to live with humans. For her 25th birthday, she finally returns, but only to introduce her werewolf family to a human fiance. What no one expects, though, is that at the party her family throws...she will encounter her destined mate. He is no other than DARIUS CARTER - the new alpha of the biggest wolf-pack in the region, holding a bad rep for killing the former alpha to assume his righteous position. But there is much more to him than just a pretty face and a fabulous six-pack... Can Lila fight destiny? Does she even want to? And why are those vampires starting to appear again with her return? ---EXCERPT: I hear people saying my name through the muffled sounds of my heartbeat banging in my ears. Then suddenly everyone in the room disappears and there are no voices. The only sound is that of his footsteps and the only scent is the most beautiful, sensual, masculine smell I have ever felt. Darius approaches me slowly at two feet away but doesn't stop. As everything seems slow-motioned, I try to step back to avoid a collision, but my feet won't listen. Instead, I take a step forward and we meet at only an inch apart. He looks at me so intensely, so passionately, that I feel devoured. Then he speaks. "Hello, mate." ____________ previous name: *ALPHA CARTER*

Banished by the Alpha's heir. Fated to his rebel twin. At her Luna's funeral, Grace is named her pack's priestess. Before the day is over, she scents her mate across a battlefield. Aaron is the rebel Alpha blamed for her parents' deaths-and the twin brother of the man she is expected to serve. Worse, he already has a Luna he chose and loves. When Grace tries to save that Luna's life, her pack brands her a traitor and banishes her into a forest haunted by witches. Aaron's rebels are the only reason she survives. They need a healer. Their dying forest needs the strange power awakening in her. Aaron wants nothing from the woman fate chose too late. Grace should hate him. He refuses to replace the mate he buried. But every memory the forest gives her exposes another lie about the war that orphaned her-and every battle beside Aaron makes it harder to remember which side she belongs to. The witches are coming for both packs. To stop them, Grace may have to become the Luna Aaron's people already see in her. But she will not live in a dead woman's shadow. And Aaron must decide whether honoring his first love is worth losing his fated mate.