Claimed by the Alpha of the Broken Pack

Ines Ferreira left Marrow Creek at seventeen and swore she'd never come back. Her mother's funeral brings her home for one weekend. The pack is down to nine wolves. The barn is ash. The pantry is a donation bin, and the alpha — Silas Marrow, the man Ines has spent nine years blaming for her brother's death — is standing in the church parking lot looking like he has been carrying the whole place on his back alone. Then the mate bond hits her like a dropped fence post. Ines is a farrier with a spreadsheet and a grudge, and the pack's own hayfields have been stolen with a forged easement. Fixing it means staying for the lawsuit. Staying means letting Silas ask her for help. And Silas has never asked anyone for anything in his life. Winter is coming. The pantry is empty. And the mate bond is not going away. She came back for a funeral. She is going to leave with a pack.