Wild Born, Alpha Fated

Alpha Samuel Blackwell has spent six years rebuilding his pack after the raid that killed his parents hunting rogues, guarding his borders, refusing every distraction from duty. Then one scent in a crowded market changes everything. Rain and rosemary. His mate.
But Annabelle Tressy is no ordinary find. She's a rogue raised in caves and hidden camps by a mother who taught her one unbreakable rule: never trust a pack, never trust an Alpha. The moment she realizes what Samuel is, she vanishes into the trees, leaving nothing behind but a scent that won't stop haunting him.
What follows isn't a hunt. It's a reckoning.
As Samuel chases a trail that keeps going cold, he uncovers the truth Annabelle has spent her whole life running from: a father who never wanted her, a mother who died protecting a secret, and a rogue organization that's been hunting her family for decades the same monsters who destroyed Samuel's childhood. Every step closer to his mate pulls him deeper into a war neither of them chose.
Annabelle isn't looking to be rescued. She's spent five years surviving on her own terms, and she won't trade one cage for another not even for the man the Moon Goddess insists is hers. But when the past finally catches her, she'll need more than survival instincts to make it out alive. She'll need to decide if she can trust someone enough to fight beside her.
From a forbidden bond forged in a marketplace to a rescue mission inside a rogue stronghold, Wild Born, Alpha Fated is a slow-burn shifter romance about two people the world told to stay apart an Alpha bound by duty, and a rogue who learned that safety and freedom were never supposed to be the same thing.
Fate chose them. Only Annabelle can choose to stay.