"The beast that waited beneath my flesh paced with anticipation to be released. Soon it would turn to need, and the beast, the wolf that I truly was, would begin to desperately claw its way into the world--with or without my consent. It had waited long enough." After the death of her grandfather and former Alpha, then rejection from the soon-to-be Alpha she thought would be her mate, the level-headed and always-in-control Valerie Carlisle finds herself lost in a sea of uncertainty about who she is and her place in the world of werewolves. In an effort to regain control of her life, she suppresses her wolf which only leads to the loss of more control and her involuntary mating to her former rival and pack-mate, the feral and beastly, Luke Mason. *THIS IS AN UNEDITED DRAFT (there are LOTS of mistakes grammar- and plot-wise) but I hope you will join me in this journey anyway! I own the story and the characters, but I do not own any images used in this story.