Fated mates. Fake engagement. The wolf knew her. The man spent months pretending he didn't.
Robert has served the Gordon Pack in silence for two centuries. He crossed an ocean to bury what he lost, and he has no intention of surviving love a second time. He knew what Cassy Taggart was the moment her scent reached him. He has spent every day since trying to unknow it.
Cassy reads rooms for a living. Her father Henry trained her young, and she spent a decade making his world look clean on paper. Now she has walked away from his empire with intelligence that could stop a land grab aimed at wolf territory, and a cover that requires her to fake an engagement to the one wolf she cannot read.
The mission is a week of old-money rules: private estates, hunting parties, rooms full of people who resolve disagreements with accidents. Only a wolf can pass. Only Robert can pass.
She's human. He's lived longer than she can measure. And every rule they set between them starts breaking the moment the door closes.
Robert won't name what she is to him. The pack reads the claim anyway. And Cassy doesn't fight with her father's tools anymore. She fights with the truth he taught her to bury.
Her own family built the machine she is trying to break. The consortium wants her silenced. And Robert is running out of corridors to retreat into.
The wolf chose her at the gate. Now the man has to say it out loud.
Tropes:
- Dual POV
- Slow burn
- Fake engagement
- Forced proximity
- Only one be
- He fell first
- Fated mates
- Grieving hero
- Strategist heroine
- Touch her and die
- Found family
Heat is 3.5 out of 5.
HEA guaranteed.
