THE ALLIANCE

THE ALLIANCE

Some bonds are forged in blood. Others are forced by it.

For twenty-four years, Aria Ashford has known exactly one truth about the Kane pack: they are the enemy. The wolves who murdered her grandmother's brother. The name spoken like a curse in her father's house. So when she's dragged from the forest blood still on her knuckles from a rogue wolf's kill and told her father has bartered her future to end the war, the betrayal cuts deeper than any blade.

She is to be mated to Rhys Kane. Heir to the pack that has haunted her family for three generations.

Rhys never wanted this either. Raised on a version of history he's beginning to suspect was never the whole truth, he expected fury when his father named his bride. What he feels instead is something far more dangerous: curiosity. About the woman he's bound to. About the war neither of their fathers will fully explain. About what might survive if two enemies stop reciting inherited hatred long enough to actually look at each other.

But the rogues pressing into the eastern territory won't wait for two proud packs to fall in love. And the true history of the Ashford-Kane war ,the one both alphas have spent a generation burying, is about to claw its way to the surface, threatening to undo the fragile bond before it has the chance to become real.

Bound by fate. Marked by blood. United by desire. Some alliances are strategy. This one might become something neither of them can survive losing.