Claimed by the Rival Alpha

For five years, Alpha Calla Morrow has held the Ashborne pack together through sheer will and the bone-deep certainty that wanting something for herself is the fastest way to lose it. She leads. She protects. She does not reach. So when her wolves start turning up dead — their pack bonds severed by a ritual she has never encountered before — she does not ask for help. Not from anyone. And not from the black-eyed Alpha of Ironfang, the pack whose name her wolves speak like a curse.

But Dax Dravon is already at the scene. He has a body too, and a name for the monster behind it. When the ritual’s next target turns out to be both their packs, the only move left is the one neither of them wants to make: work together or watch everything they have built fall apart.

The problem is not the alliance. She can run an alliance. The problem is the bond that ignites the moment they are in the same forest — fated, undeniable, and exactly the kind of thing Calla has spent her whole adult life refusing to feel. And Dax, who has spent eleven years building himself into a man nothing can unmake, cannot look away from her no matter how hard he tries.

Enemies are closing in on two sides. A rogue wolf runs a severing ritual that feeds on unfinished bonds. And the fated mate connection between them grows stronger every time they choose to stay.

A steamy paranormal romance novella featuring dual POV, forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers tension, and a complete happily-ever-after.