Everyone knows about Alpha Nicholas. He's the type of man who kills the innocent and recruits the guilty, the type of man who values power and obedience.
Darcy's pack has been a victim of Nicholas for as long as she can remember. Once a year, all of the unmated males roam through the pack's land on a hunt for their mates to take back to their pack. At the age of eighteen, finally old enough to find her mate, Darcy does her best to lie low, sickened at the thought of being forced into the pack she's despised since birth.
That is, until Alpha Nicholas himself claims her.
"I don't want a mate, need a mate or have a mate. Nothing you say is going to change that."
Alpha Aidan of the Fervidus territories has been longing for a challenge for longer than he can remember.
When subversive Lorelei shatters his heart and devastates the traditions he holds dear, a singular word resonates in the testy Alpha's mind. Mate.
But his witty little rogue isn't the accepting kind. Or the settling kind. Or the kind, open and sweet kind. Definitely not the sociable kind.
Will he keep up, or will she sweep him under the carpet with yesterday's woes?
Only time, patience and an iron will may tell.
"I'm a patient man."