She thought being rejected by her fated mate was the worst thing that could happen to her.
She was wrong.
Elira was meant to be chosen—marked by destiny, claimed by an Alpha, and bound to a future written in blood and loyalty. Instead, she is humiliated in front of her entire pack, branded a disgrace, and sold to the rival Alpha as part of a fragile peace treaty.
But the moment she crosses into enemy territory… something inside her mark awakens.
It doesn’t heal. It doesn’t fade. It burns.
The rival Alpha doesn’t trust her. He studies her like a threat he can’t yet name—cold, controlled, dangerously patient. He should be her captor. Her enemy. Her punishment.
Yet every time he comes near, the mark reacts like it recognizes him.
And then there is her rejected mate—the one who cast her aside without hesitation… until he realizes she was never supposed to survive without him.
Now he wants her back.
But Elira is no longer sure she can be owned at all.
Because something inside her is waking up. Something ancient. Something powerful. Something that whispers she was never meant to be chosen by one Alpha…
…but feared by all of them.
And when the truth behind the mark finally reveals itself, Elira won’t just break bonds—
She will burn every pack that tried to claim her.
Even if it starts a war between monsters who all swear she belongs to them.
