tricked into becoming the heroine's stepmother - Bound by the Alpha’s Deception #989704

Helen Simon trusts contracts because paper cannot abandon her. When she accepts a well-paid, twelve-month position caring for eight-year-old Isabela Rangel, she expects a demanding child, an isolated mountain estate, and an employer who values privacy. She does not expect werewolves.

Nor does she expect the document she signed to name her as Isabela’s guardian and the recognised partner of Zayne Spears, billionaire technology founder, Alpha heir, and the man who arranged the deception.

Helen refuses to surrender her freedom to pack law, family pressure, or a powerful man who believes protection gives him the right to choose for others. Yet walking away is no longer simple. Isabela is a watchful, lonely child who already expects everyone to leave, and Helen may be the only person standing between her and a council determined to preserve tradition. Beyond the estate, a rival pack has learned Helen’s name.

Zayne is controlled, formidable, and impossible to dismiss. He admits what he has done without asking Helen to forgive him. The more he fights to return the choice he stole, the harder it becomes for her to ignore the restrained attraction growing between them. Every conversation sharpens the tension. Every shared concern for Isabela pulls them closer. Trust, however, carries a price neither of them can afford to misjudge.

Tricked into Becoming the Heroine’s Stepmother is a slow-burn paranormal werewolf romance with forced proximity, pack politics, a protective Alpha heir, and a guarded human heroine who will not accept love without respect. It promises emotional conflict, earned tenderness, chosen family, and a romance built on the right to say yes.

Enter Blackthorn Ridge and begin Helen’s fight for truth, freedom, and a place she chooses for herself.