Being a woman in a man's world has always been hard. Whether it came to politics, work, or just every day life, being a woman could be hard. It was even harder to try and lead in a man dominated world. Men were the leaders in every aspect of life. They led the pack, the council, appointed other men to lead below them and fight. Woman were seen as beings that needed to be protected and stand behind their male. Andrew Danielson just didn't see it that way. He was alpha of Silent Ash, a pack who resided in the deep southern part of the United States. His luna, who before her untimely death, had only bore him one child.
Nicole Danielson.
She was Andrew's pride and joy, and the current Alpha of Silent Ash. She needed no one but her beta and gamma, Lance Richards and James Witten to help her lead. She was a force to reckon with, and she intended for all the alphas to know it.
Her journey of being one of the only reigning female alphas in the United States proved to be hard. It was full of ridicule from other men, thinking the female too weak and in her feelings to run the pack smoothly. She intended nothing more than to show them wrong. Although her father agreed, he still believed she needed her mate to reach her full potential. So when Aldrich Branson, the feared, but respected alpha of Nightshade, the largest pack in the western part of the United States, comes to her asking for help, her entire world is turned upside down.
Excerpt only: I quickly run in their direction as my claws elongate into fierce points. I watch as a man in all black strikes down and kills one of the innocent packless men before turning to another. I make a flying leap to attack and am suddenly hit with a strong, overwhelming scent of vanilla and citrus.
"Mate!" My wolf yells in my head.
My conviction evaporates and confusion hits me, but I don't have time to think about what this means. Before I even have the chance to realize what is happening, the unknown man who had been my target spins to face me. We are mere centimeters apart and pain explodes through my stomach. I look down to find a black hilt sticking out of me and crimson spreading out around it. The man drops his hand from the dagger and I look up to meet his eyes. There are so many emotions swirling through his gorgeous sapphire eyes, confusion, shock, sadness, fear, anger. I don't get the chance to contemplate this as I stumble backwards, my consciousness slipping away from me. And then everything goes black.
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Scarlet Denton is a fiery young she-wolf with no family and no pack. She lives in the outskirts of Crescent City which is ruled by the feared Alpha Ethan Kane. They may live in the same area, but their lives are quite different from each other. What happens when they find out that they are mates?