What’s a Mate

Briar Vance has spent her entire life as Calderwych's unanswered wolf, the girl born without the bond every shifter depends on. She cannot feel the mate pull, cannot sense grief through the pack, and cannot hear the sacred web that tells every wolf where they belong. To the pack, that makes her broken. To Briar, it has always meant one thing: she is easier to forget. Then a body appears where the tide never should have left it. When the new Alpha, Rholt Mercer, comes to the marsh for answers, Briar is the only one who can read the water well enough to see the truth. Someone is killing wolves in the silence, hiding death from the bond itself. But the deeper Briar digs, the more dangerous her gift becomes, because the flaw everyone shamed her for may be the only thing powerful enough to expose a killer. Rholt feels the mate bond the moment he sees her. Briar feels nothing. No pull. No spark. No fate calling her home. But as murder, betrayal, and pack politics rise like floodwater around them, Rholt refuses to reject the woman everyone else cast aside. He chooses her, even when the bond runs only one way. In a pack where love is supposed to be felt, Briar must prove that love can also be chosen. And if she cannot uncover the truth before the next tide turns, the entire pack may drown in a silence only she can see. A haunting, emotional shifter romance filled with fated mates, obsession, mystery, rejected-bond angst, pack secrets, and a heroine who discovers she was never broken. Read it now before the tide takes the truth under.