Fake Mate For The Alpha King - A Fake Dating Forced Proximity Fated Mates Wolf Shifter Paranormal Romance with Grumpy Sunshine #976136

The mate bond isn't supposed to hurt. But when the alpha you were destined for looks you in the eye and walks away, you learn real fast that fate isn't always kind — and healing is a choice you have to make every single morning.

Wren Calloway didn't come back to the small mountain town of Hollow Creek to fall in love. She came back to rebuild — a quiet life, a steady job, and some semblance of peace after the rejection that shattered everything she thought she knew about herself. The last person she expects to find working next door is Cael Ashford: the brooding, closed-off wolf whose pack has tangled roots with her own, and who seems determined to pretend she doesn't exist. But Hollow Creek is small. And fate, it turns out, has a very long memory.

Wren has spent two years learning to want less — less warmth, less connection, less of the breathless hope that comes with believing you were made for someone. She built walls the way you pack a wound: carefully, thoroughly, out of necessity. But the found family she stumbles into in Hollow Creek — the pack of misfits and quietly tender souls who gather every Sunday around a too-small kitchen table — is beginning to undo every careful seam of her armor. And Cael, gruff and guarded and watching her from across every room they share, is beginning to feel less like a reminder of what she lost and more like a question she hasn't let herself ask. The bond between them is old and aching and entirely unfinished. And the closer she lets herself get to the life she stopped allowing herself to want, the more she understands that some wounds don't close until you walk back through them — with someone steady enough to hold your hand on the way.

If you love sweet paranormal romance with grumpy-sunshine heart, found family warmth, and a slow-burn love story that earns every tender moment — Hollow Creek is waiting for you. Add it to your library today and let yourself believe in second chances.