He rejected her before the whole pack. Now he has to beg her to come back.

Five years ago, Alpha Nathaniel Thackeray stood before Willowmere's council and spoke the words that severed his bond to Frances Bramble, casting her out of pack life and shattering everything she had built toward becoming their Healer. She survived the Long Chill that followed, rebuilt herself as Hardwick Falls's best vet tech, and swore she'd never again wait on any man's judgment of her worth.

Now the pack's Healer is down, a tracker is fighting for his life, and old law leaves Nathaniel no choice: he must stand before Frances again and formally request the one thing he threw away. She isn't interested in his guilt. She wants him to watch exactly what he lost, piece by piece, while she decides if he deserves to earn any of it back.

With danger closing in on Willowmere's border and the truth behind her rejection still buried, proximity reignites a fated pull neither of them can outrun, even as Frances holds all the power this time.

Will she let him grovel his way back into a bond he broke in public, or make him live with what he lost?