"I need a healer, not a wife."
Those were the first words Alpha Cassian Vale ever said to Maeve Hollow, and she'd have respected the honesty more if his pack weren't currently dying because of it. Stormclaw calls the sickness the Fading. Wolves lose their shift, silver creeps beneath their veins, gold eyes fade to gray, and nothing Cassian's own healers have tried has slowed it in six weeks.
An old treaty gives him exactly one option left: invoke a clause no Alpha before him has ever been desperate enough to use, and ask a Hollow bloodline healer to bind herself to his throne through marriage, freely, in exchange for the trust his pack's cure requires.
No healer has ever said yes.
Maeve Hollow says yes anyway, not because the treaty leaves her any choice, but because her oath does. She isn't interested in becoming Stormclaw's Luna. She's interested in the pattern hiding inside a sickness that shouldn't behave the way it does, why only certain bloodlines fall ill, why the healers immune to it all trained under her own methods, and why none of it adds up to anything nature could have built on its own.
Cassian recognizes competence when he sees it, and hers terrifies him almost as much as it draws him in.
What neither of them expects is that the man standing closest to the Alpha, trusted for eleven years, believes with complete and unshakable conviction that watching this pack suffer is the only way to save it. And the healer he married for duty is the only person on the mountain sharp enough to prove it.
Doctor Luna: The Alpha's Forsaken Bride is a slow-burn, standalone enemies-to-lovers romance about a marriage neither of them wanted, a diagnosis that costs more than either of them planned to pay, and a trust that has to be built completely from nothing before love ever gets the chance to grow on top of it. HEA guaranteed.
Book Three of the Rejected Mate Chronicles. Each book is a standalone werewolf romance with its own complete love story.