The Ashpaw: Part One

The Ashpaw does not belong.

Fern was ten years old when a wounded wolf marked her on a full moon night—a claim forgotten until duty forced the alpha to finish the job a decade later.

Torn from her home and bound to a man who keeps her by obligation rather than desire, Fern learns quickly that safety means invisibility, especially with his promised mate watching her every move.

But when her first shift fails and Alpha Darion names her the clan's scapegoat, invisibility stops being a strategy and becomes her only hope for survival.

The problem is that something in her refuses to stay hidden. The wolves around her feel it before she does. They’re watching her too closely, defending her too quickly, and caring in ways that threaten the fragile order holding the clan together.

And all the while, the alpha who should want her least keeps finding reasons to look her way, keeps finding reasons to pull her close—and just as many reasons to push her away.

He doesn't want her.

He won't let her go.

And she's running out of ways to survive both.