Moonlit Betrayal - Rejected by the Alpha Second Chance Fated Mates Shifter Romance #974304

He rejected her five years ago. Now he needs her to save his pack — and she has every reason to let it burn.

Zephyrine Delacroix doesn't let wolves on her land. Not after what the last one cost her. For three years she's been building something real at Calder's Gap — her mountain hollow, her apothecary, her life, carved out of the wreckage of a fated bond broken before it ever had a chance to breathe. She's healed. She's rooted. She's done.
Then Ryker Caine steps out of her tree line, and the bond she buried flares back to life like she never put it out.

Ryker is the Alpha of the most powerful pack in the Blue Ridge corridor, and his pack is in trouble. Something ancient is hollowing his wolves from the inside — carving out their mate bonds, weaponizing their grief, spreading through the highland range like cold through stone. His storms haven't stopped for three months. His gift is bleeding into the weather. And every lead he has runs south, straight to the woman he wronged.

She shouldn't help him. She has every reason not to. But the Hollowed wolves are dying on her border, the ancient threat is hunting fated pairs across the mountains — and Zephyrine's gift is the only thing that can read what's in the dark.
Working together means being close. Close means the dreams start again — vivid, bone-deep, impossible to lie through. And somewhere between fighting side by side in an ancient cavern and the truth finally breaking the surface between them, Zephyrine realizes the most dangerous thing in these mountains isn't the creature in the dark. It's what happens when she stops protecting herself from the man who already broke her once.

A steamy paranormal romance novella featuring fated mates, a rejected bond, second-chance love, and a Blue Ridge mountain world where the land itself has opinions. Complete standalone with a happily-ever-after ending.

If you love wolf shifter romance with emotional depth, a heroine who isn't waiting to be rescued, and a hero who has to earn every inch of trust he broke — this is the book you've been looking for.

Grab your copy and find out if five years is long enough to unbreak something that was never supposed to break.