Nadia Cole was sold to pay a debt that was never hers.
Her stepfamily handed her over to the most feared Alpha in the north to settle six years of unpaid blood debt. She arrived with one bag, forty dollars hidden in her boot, and a wolf she had spent three years hiding from the people who were supposed to love her.
Alpha Ryland Voss does not believe in mates. He watched his own father break when he trusted the wrong woman. Six wolves died because of it. Ryland built a wall around himself that no one had ever gotten past — and he has no plans to let anyone in now.
Except Nadia refuses to stay out of his way.
She trains with his warriors at four in the morning. She earns the respect of his pack one fight at a time. She holds his gaze when everyone else looks away. And slowly, without meaning to, she starts cracking open something in him that he swore he would never feel again.
Then the truth comes out.
Nadia is not just a debt paid off. She carries a bloodline so powerful that a rival Alpha has been hunting her for years — a bloodline that activates only one way. The claiming bite. The one thing Ryland refuses to give her.
He will not say the word mate.
He will not mark her.
He keeps choosing distance, again and again, right up until the moment he can't anymore.
A rival Alpha closing in. A missing sister. A secret her own mother died protecting. And a war that is coming whether Ryland is ready for it or not.
Because you can only run from the moon for so long.