2 parts Complete When Ivy Holt, the pack's late-blooming "loser," is bonded to Dorian Vale, the future Alpha golden boy promised to flawless Seraphine Corvin, they're forced into a fake Luna romance to calm the scandal. But every bond has those determined to break it.
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Ivy Holt has never been Luna material. She can't shift, she can't fight, and most of the pack thinks she's destined to wilt in the background like one of her pressed flowers.
But the Mating Moon has other plans.
One ceremony gone wrong, and Ivy is suddenly bonded to Dorian Vale, the future Alpha golden boy. The one who was supposed to be with Seraphine Corvin: perfect, fearless, practically bred for the Luna crown. Overnight, the Vale and Corvin fairy tale shatters, and Ivy becomes the scandal everyone loves to hate.
To save face, the elders force Ivy and Dorian into training to prove their bond. Publicly, they have to act like mates. Privately, they can't stand each other.
But the act starts to blur. The more Ivy leans into her quiet strengths, the herbs, the lore, the knowledge the pack has always ignored, the harder she is to dismiss. And the more she and Dorian fake it, the more real it feels.
Yet some won't let go. Others will stop at nothing to see them fall.
Will their bond survive the weight of a pack that wants it broken, or will they lose each other before they've even begun?