Signed Away, Not Thrown Away

She’s wolfless and has no one in her corner. There’s nobody out there who would even notice if she disappeared. Be patient a little longer, and you’ll soon be the woman ruling this pack at my side.

Willa Hart heard her husband say it through the study door.

For three winters she was Preston Ashcroft’s secret wife. She cooked for his family, wrote down every cent of her allowance and stayed out of sight. Then his first love came home, and he wrote her a check for three hundred thousand dollars in one night.

So Willa laid divorce papers on his desk. Preston signed them without reading a line. Where could a wolfless Omega go?

He had no idea who he had just let walk out the door.

Every pack in the north runs on one power grid, and one secret engineer keeps it alive. The Council calls that engineer Lantern. Preston’s company has spent years trying to buy Lantern’s system.

Lantern was the woman washing his dishes.

A storm traps Willa at a border station with Kade Graydon, the feared Alpha of Northgate, whose half-wild wolf goes quiet for the first time in years beside her. Then the coldest midwinter in thirty years is coming, and the lights of the north are about to go out.

Now the Alpha who threw her away wants her back. The Alpha who found her only wants her free.