His wolf chose her. She refused him. A denied bond does not fade, it kills.
Fated mates. Grumpy keeper, sunshine wolf. His wolf chose her on sight.
She refused him, and it's slowly killing him.
"I had refused him my hand, my mouth, and my bond."
Catriona came down from the mountains to judge the soft lowland packs and decide whether to save them or leave them to fall. She did not come down to find her fated mate grinning at her across a Gordon yard.
Oscar is everything she came to condemn. Warm where she is hard. Beloved in every room he walks into, and chosen by no one.
Her wolf wants him. Catriona refuses him. She doesn't know what that refusal is doing to him. A denied bond doesn't fade. It kills. And Oscar would sooner hide it behind that easy grin than be claimed out of pity.
Then an enemy bearing gifts closes on the wolves, and the charming lowlander she won't claim is the one they mean to break.
He fell first. She'll fall hardest. And the one word that could save his life is the one she swore she would never say.
Tropes:
- Dual POV
- Slow burn
- Reverse grumpy / sunshine
- Fated mates
- He falls first
- Denied bond
- Touch-heals
- Opposites attract
- Forced proximity
- Mountain keeper heroine
- Charming golden hero
- Found family
Content:
- Spice: 3.5 / 5
- Standalone romance
- Shared world
- HEA Guaranteed
