The Alpha King's Reluctant Mate

Imogen "Immy" Ashbourne, twenty-one, is the quiet daughter of the Blood Moon pack's Alpha. She counts her steps, keeps the Hall's archive and lives with an ankle that never healed right.

On a Saturday night in October she is bitten in an alley behind a cinema. By dawn the bite is closing, and across the mountains Alexander Vale, the Alpha King who rules the Western Compact, feels the mate bond snap into place and does the one thing he has trained himself to do: he shuts it out.

Alex arrives at Ashbourne Hall as a guest of the Compact. His father taught him that a mate is a debt the body pays, and he treats Immy like a threat to be managed. But her bite was not an ordinary attack.

People across the valley are being marked with a black crescent and slowly turning into something starved and inhuman, and Immy's touch is the only thing that has ever turned the mark back.

Hunted by the men behind the marks, tested by a Compact that wants her gift for its own purposes, and carrying her own brother's loyalty and her best friend's secrets, Immy has to decide what she is willing to give up to save strangers. Alex has to decide whether control is worth losing her.