THE ALPHA'S SECRET ARRANGEMENT - A Paranormal Werewolf Romance of Fake Mates and Forbidden Bonds #973404

She came to sell her grandmother's apothecary. She didn't plan to become an Alpha's fake mate — or to stop wanting to leave.

Nadia Voss returns to the remote mountain town of Ravenmoor with one agenda: inventory the inherited apothecary, sell it, and get back to the life she's spent twenty-one years carefully building far from here. She does not plan to discover that the town is home to a pack of wolf shifters. She absolutely does not plan to meet Soren Blackwood.

He is the Alpha of Ravenmoor Pack — controlled, dangerous, and running out of time. Ancient pack law requires him to present a mate at the upcoming treaty summit or risk losing the northern alliance his pack needs to survive the winter. His only viable candidate is the sharp-tongued, entirely inconvenient woman who just inherited the apothecary on his border — a woman whose blood carries a pack-bond dormant for decades, a woman his wolf recognized before his mind caught up.
The arrangement is straightforward: she plays his mate through the summit, he signs over the deed to her grandmother's shop, and they both walk away clean. Thirty days. No complications.

Except.

Every night working side by side over her grandmother's journals, every shared silence that turns out to be full rather than empty, every moment his wolf goes quiet in a way it never has before — the arrangement becomes harder to perform and easier to mean. And when a rival Alpha threatens to expose their deception, Nadia is forced to choose between the exit she's always kept ready and the home she didn't know she'd been running toward her entire life.
The Alpha's Secret Arrangement is a slow-burn paranormal romance featuring a brooding Alpha hero carrying a wound he's never spoken aloud, a heroine who leaves first and always, and the fake mates arrangement that burns down every careful wall between them.
Perfect for readers who love:

• Fake mates → real feelings with earned slow burn
• Forced proximity and charged domestic tension
• Grumpy/grumpy dynamics where warmth must be excavated
• Heroes who are quietly, devastatingly devoted
• Heroines with agency, dry wit, and deep roots they didn't know they had

If you've been waiting for a shifter romance that earns every moment — start reading today.