Sixteen was when Saria’s fate first touched her skin.A silver crescent mark bound her to the future Alpha—her mate, her destiny, her supposed salvation.But even then, something felt wrong.A year later, everything shattered.Her family was slaughtered.Her sister vanished without a trace.And the bond that should have protected her began changing into something no one could explain.When her mate finally returns as Alpha, Saria doesn’t ask for love.She asks for answers.Instead, he rejects her.Publicly.Coldly.Before the entire pack.The bond should break.It doesn’t.It fractures.And in that fracture, something impossible awakens.A second pull.A second Alpha.A connection that should not exist under any law of fate.Drawn beyond her pack’s borders by a force she cannot control, Saria collides with a man who should mean nothing to her.But the moment he sees her mark, something changes.He looks at her like he recognizes a nightmare he cannot remember.And for the first time since her rejection, the pain inside her begins to ease.Only briefly.Only enough to make her question everything.As buried memories begin resurfacing and long-hidden secrets emerge, Saria discovers that the night her family died was not the tragedy she was led to believe.Someone lied.Someone erased the truth.And someone has spent years making sure certain memories never return.Caught between the Alpha who rejected her and the Alpha who should not be connected to her at all, Saria uncovers a conspiracy buried long before she was born.The bond did not fail by accident.And whatever was done to it is beginning to unravel.If she cannot uncover the truth before it does, she may lose far more than her heart.She may lose herself.