Five years ago, Alpha Gideon Callahan rejected Mara Bennett in front of his entire pack, shattering the bond between them and calling her too weak to be his Luna.

He lied.

Now Mara runs the most beloved bakery in Blackwood Hollow, Montana, and she has spent five years proving she never needed him at all. Then, on the night of the Harvest Moon Festival, Gideon walks back through her door, and the touch of his hand awakens something inside her that was never weak. Never broken.

Never ordinary.

Mara is Moonborn, the last of a bloodline the supernatural world was told died out centuries ago, and her awakening has put a target on her back. An ancient order wants her alive. A rival Alpha knows secrets about her dead mother. Gideon's own mother has been lying to her for twenty-five years. And something ancient is stirring beneath the town, waiting for the one person strong enough to either set it free, or seal it forever.

Gideon broke her once to save her life. Now he must earn back a woman who no longer needs saving, whose power could burn down everything he loves, and whose heart he is no longer entitled to claim just because fate says she is his.

This time, Mara isn't asking to be chosen.

She's deciding whether she wants to choose him back.

A gripping paranormal romance filled with rejected mates, second chances, hidden power, and an Alpha who must learn that love without control is the only love worth having.

She was rejected because someone feared what she might become. Now she is exactly that and no one gets to decide it for her again.