Rejecting the Alpha King

Josie Bell left Greyhaven twelve years ago with a broken bond and a shredded heart. Alpha Whit Carroway rejected her in front of the whole pack and married another woman for the good of his bloodline. She built a bakery, a life, a self that didn't need him. Then Whit's wife died in a rogue attack, and the pack called Josie home. The bond Whit severed is reopening — stronger, hungrier, impossible to ignore. Josie arrives determined to refuse him. But Whit doesn't demand. He doesn't beg. He just asks her to stay long enough to train his wolves and defend the border from the rogues massing in the hills. She stays for the pack. She fights beside him. And slowly, she learns the truth: he rejected her because his father threatened to kill her family if he didn't. Now the rogues are at the gates, and Whit is bleeding in her arms. Josie has one chance to decide: forgive him, or lose him forever.