All her life, Emily Hanes just wanted to be loved. Was that too much to ask? Apparently, since all her father could do was beat the crap out of her and all her mother could do was watch. On the night of her sixteenth birthday, Emily ran away to find her mate. And she did. But the incredibly gorgeous Alpha-Christian Perez- is not at all what she expected her mate to be like. He rejects her, his mother rejects... So, the question is: can Emily find the love she always wanted with people she never knew? And will her screwed up past save her from a life of lies or will it just destroy her even more?