Nineteen-year-old Angelica Winter is a human girl. She has little knowledge of life outside of her mother's torment, and she doesn't believe she ever will. For ten years, she's been verbally and physically mistreated. The horrible treatment makes her feel like she's not human, like she's nothing, but when she makes a mistake, a choice has to be made: have her only purity be defiled or risk an escape? Twenty-two-year-old Axel Moretti is an Alpha werewolf. He's searched for his mate for four years, slowly losing hope that he doesn't have one due to his cruelty. He unexpectedly finds her. However, when he meets her, something seems very wrong. She's an overly startled human, and what's worse, she refuses to meet his eyes. When the reason for her strange ways comes to light, will Axel be able to keep his cruel ways under control in order to heal his scarred, reluctant mate? Or will he unravel and lose the love of his life forever? • ⚠️‼️TRIGGER WARNING‼️⚠️ THIS STORY CONTAINS DETAILED SCENES OF THE ACTS LISTED BELOW (Abuse, Derogatory Language, Rape, Sexual Assault, Violence, Suicide Attempts, Mutilation, Self-Harm) THIS BOOK IS A SLOWBURN! NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON AS PAPERBACK AND EBOOK • Started: 06/07/23 Finished: 11/09/23 • Highest Rank: #1 in Werewolf as of 11/21/23

She smiles and laughs like there's no care in the world. She lives everyday seeming to be normal. Hiding what happened to her. Hiding what tore her apart. Hiding her pain. Her smiles and laughs never reach her eyes though. Some smiles are real, some laughs are real. She looks happy, she wants to be happy, but she can't because it comes back to her like it happen yesterday that brings her back to sadness, to loneliness, to hide her truth from everyone. Iris is 17 years old. She had a rough past and is trying to live normal on her own. She works to keep a roof over her head and get back into school. She only needs one more year of high school. This will be the first time back into school in a few years and she has forgotten how it was like to be in a school. But what happens to her she does not expect.