Evan Shaw waits until the night he becomes Alpha to reject me in front of our entire pack. After five years together, he wants a mate who can strengthen his position. Apparently, that isn't me. He still expects me to stay. Instead, I leave Briar Lake and take a job at a rival pack's mountain rescue station. I have my own paycheck, a room of my own, and no intention of falling for another Alpha. Then I meet Reid Bennett. He's reserved, demanding, and infuriatingly difficult to ignore. He trusts me to do my job. He listens when I disagree. There is no fated bond between us, which makes wanting him feel more dangerous than anything I've known. But people are disappearing in the mountains, and the evidence leads back to the fire that killed my mother seven years ago. Reid knows something about that night. So does the pack I left behind. Now Evan wants me back, and getting close to Reid means trusting someone with ties to the past I'm trying to uncover. I came here to build a life of my own. Someone is determined to make sure I don't live long enough to do it.