He rejected her in front of the whole pack. Now he needs her more than ever.

Six years ago, Alpha Julian Marek stood before his pack and spoke the words that ended his mate bond with Hannah Pike, severing them by force and leaving her with a wound that never fully closed. Hannah rebuilt herself into the best tracker Stonefall has ever had, working the same Bitterroot mountains that used to be her home, refusing to need the pack's approval — or Julian's — ever again.

Then livestock start dying on Stonefall land, killed by something with a scent no wolf recognizes, and the Alpha has no choice but to summon his rejected mate back into his territory and put the investigation in her hands.

Now Julian and Hannah are forced into the same rooms, the same danger, the same unbearable pull of a bond that was never supposed to survive rejection — while something far worse than old grief is hunting in the dark, closing in on the valley they both still call home.

Can a fated bond survive the one thing old law says can never be undone?