Marking the Alpha

Junie Kessler has inked half of Bitter Creek and shifted for none of it. She knows exactly what she is: witch-blooded, human, and nobody's property. Then the Blackridge alpha sits in her chair for a pack mark he doesn't want, and the bond snaps the instant her needle sets the ink. Rowan Blackridge has a treaty war to fight and no time for a fated mate, least of all one who won't be claimed. But an old council ruling says a marked human belongs to the pack that marked her, and Rowan's rival files that claim inside a week. Junie has one move left: her own mark, her own terms, inked on both of them. And a challenge circle that will decide whether the Blackridge pack has an alpha or a property line.