I left the Valecourt Pack because Sabine made Leon's survival depend on my disappearance after a deadly wolfsbane poisoning. Then she stole the wolf-tooth pendant he'd given me and used it to convince him I died near Greyfall Ravine.
Seven years later, I'm blind from old injuries and raising our twins in Briarwick. When the children sell my hand-tooled leather badges—each stamped with two wolves howling at the moon—and later stumble across Leon's pendant, the lie begins to crack.
Then Corin half-shifts for the first time, giving Leon the proof he can no longer ignore. The mate he mourned for seven years is alive—and the twins standing beside her are his children.
Leon comes for us, ready to bring his family home.
But I'm not the woman who disappeared for him seven years ago. I won't give up my freedom just because he wants me back.
I once gave up everything to keep Leon alive.
This time, Leon doesn't get to decide where I belong.
He has to earn the right to belong with us.
