Mine Before You, Alpha

Mairi Fraser survived the night her pack was slaughtered. Eight years on, she is a widow with two orphaned children to raise and a hidden wolf that has only just woken. She lives under the protection of a Highland neighbour and has no intention of belonging to anyone again.

Then Niall Menzies, the iron-willed Alpha of Dorran, arrives at a gathering and knows her scent at once: his fated mate. He is used to being obeyed, and he decides she is coming home with him. Mairi does not argue. She tells him she is already a Luna, of a pack that has no land, no seat and no one left to speak for it.

Dorran has its own secrets: an empty Luna's chair, a council that does not trust her, a sister-in-law with her own ideas, and a poisoner within reach of the kitchen. A man from the night of the massacre is hunting the survivors, and what he wants from them is Mairi. Niall has to learn that a mate is not something you claim. She has to decide whether trusting him again is worth the risk. Between them lie a rejected claim, a stolen season, a thread that can be cut, and an old law that may free her pack.