Nika has spent her whole life thinking that she was an ordinary girl, with ordinary friends, and an ordinary life, but she was wrong. She's not an ordinary girl, her friends aren't ordinary friends, and her life is a big mess. Nika is a werewolf. Her father is the beta to her uncle, the alpha of the Silvermoon Pack. Like all werewolves, Nika had a mate, but he died defending her alpha three years before she changed. Now her parents want her to marry another, so she won't spend the rest of her life alone, but she doesn't want to marry another.
Aaron is from the Deathfrost Pack. After losing the alpha of their pack to rogues, his pack decided to elect another alpha. Naturally, they chose Joel, the alpha's beta. Aaron isn't to happy about that little fact. If his father goes through with the ritual to become alpha, that puts Aaron as the next alpha of the Deathfrost Pack. Four years ago, the idea of being the future alpha would have been a dream, but not now. He couldn't bare the thought of being an alpha with no mate by his side. Aaron had met his mate, and he loved her greatly, but she to had suffered at the hands of rogues. Aaron had failed her; he didn't want to fail the Deathfrost Pack too.
Now Aaron is expected to make a sacrifice for his future pack that no were should have to make. Nika is left having to prove that she doesn't need a man to be happy. Will they be able to convince their families and their packs that a wedding is not the solution? Will Nika be able to escape her biggest fear: an arranged marriage?
*Short Story*
It is difficult to stay with the people who look down at you like you are some kind of disease. It hurts when they don't want to acknowledge you for the good things you have done. It hurts when your family rejects you only because you are quiet and weak saying you are good for nothing.
Annie Ryan was nothing but a quiet, innocent teenager waiting for her mate to save her from the dark hell she was living in. She had only one dream, she wanted to feel loved, she wanted someone to tell her that they care and would love her no matter what happens. But little did she know that she was just another unfortunate soul whose mate had different plans.
Caden was an young alpha. He had everything but where everyone was eager to meet their mate, he wasn't. He had already given his position of alpha female to his girlfriend. But after she left him, he turned cold and ruthless. But when he met Annie, his mate, one thing was clear. He wanted nothing to do with her. He asked her to leave but when she declined, he paid her no attention like she never existed.
Annie was broken. Her dream was just a dream. Every night she closed her eyes, she realized she was going to die alone with no one to care. She wanted to end her life but not before setting everything right, not before her destined alpha mate finds his happiness.
Caden didn't know what he was missing until he lost it. Maybe that's how life works. Maybe that's why it is called cruel.