Shelby knows the southern Alpha is her mate.
He still hasn’t answered a question while looking at her.
She came south to help negotiate an alliance, not to sit quietly while the men decide what everyone needs. When Raymond asks for her by name in the packs’ exchange, she agrees to stay for a year.
Her people need southern allies. She is willing to do her part.
Spending that year beside a mate who won’t quite meet her eyes is going to make it considerably harder.
Raymond knows how to lead his people. He knows how to keep his word. He has considerably less practice wanting something he cannot arrange, provide, or promise into being.
Shelby makes him want it anyway.
She challenges him in front of others, surprises him into laughter, and makes the place beside him feel like hers. Away from the meetings, she discovers a man whose quiet attention is far harder to resist than she expected.
Their wolves are certain. Every day together gives them another reason to agree.
But Shelby has work she loves, a brother she misses, and a home in the north. Raymond’s people depend on him in the south. And Henry Taggart’s armed men are blocking the crossing families need to reach their winter grounds.
With time running out, Shelby and Raymond must learn to trust each other with more than their desire.
A year gives them time to fall in love.
It doesn’t tell them how to keep each other.
She wants a place in his life where she can still be herself. He wants her to stay because she is. Can they find a future neither has to disappear into?
Fated mates. A year in his world. A life of her own she won’t give up.
Can be read as a standalone.
Each book follows a new couple in a shared world.
Tropes:
- Dual POV
- Slow burn
- Fated mates
- A year-long pledge
- Protective Alpha
- Outspoken heroine
- Mutual pining
- Warm banter
- Pack life
- Spice level is 3.5 / 5
- Standalone romance
- Shared world
- HEA guaranteed
