The Rejected Healer

Briar of Ashfen is the pack healer — a wolf who cannot shift, but whose hands can knit bone and stop a dying man's bleeding. When her fated mate, Alpha Garrick, is poisoned at his own naming feast, he does the unthinkable: he rejects her before the entire pack and banishes her to the borderlands. But the rejection was never about love. It was a shield. Garrick's cousin Aldric had already marked Briar for death, and a severed bond was the only way to keep her alive. Now Aldric rules Ashfen with an iron claw, and Garrick — half-dead from poison that never left his blood — arrives at Briar's door in the dead of winter. She heals him. She does not forgive him. Together they must raise a rebellion from the border villages and take back a pack that cast her out. But when the war is won, Briar will not return as a subject. She will return as his equal — or not at all.