What The Mountain kept

She left to survive her own future. She's back to bury her father, and the bond she thought she'd killed wakes up the second she crosses the county line.

Ten years ago, Amber Summers ran from Ironclaw Hollow the night the mating bond locked into place, certain that staying meant disappearing, the way she'd watched her own mother disappear. She built a life three states away. A career. A wall around her heart. It held for a decade.

It doesn't hold when she sees Wilder Ibarra across a funeral home parking lot.

Alpha of Ironclaw Pack, Wilder never took another mate. He never stopped waiting. But the timing couldn't be worse: a body just turned up on pack land wearing a collar that shouldn't exist, and Amber's father spent his last six weeks trying to warn someone before it killed him. Now the only person Wilder trusts to help him find out who's hunting his territory is the one woman he swore he'd never let himself need again.

Forced proximity throws them back together. The fated mate bond does the rest. But someone in Ironclaw Hollow already knows too much — and they're not going to let Amber walk away a second time.

If you love second-chance fated mate romance, small town alpha heroes, and werewolf romance books with real stakes and a heroine who doesn't need saving so much as she needs someone worth staying for, you'll want to start this one tonight.