The Alpha’s Bargain

“You can’t scare me,” I whispered, though my pulse betrayed me, pounding out of control. “I don’t want to scare you.” His thumb brushed over my jaw, dragging to the corner of my mouth. “I want you shaking for the right reason.” Anika Valen is traded to Garrick Draal, the merciless Alpha of Ridge Pack, as payment for her family’s debts. She expects cruelty, and finds it, in his rules, in the iron control of his household, and in the way he keeps her close but untouchable. Yet beneath his cold exterior lies the man who once loved her, the man who let her slip away to save his pack. Now, bound by contracts and bruised by betrayal, Anika and Garrick must navigate their dangerous bond. She is no longer the timid girl he remembers but a woman unwilling to bow. As old conspiracies rise, the two must decide if their fractured love can burn bright enough to fight enemies outside and the darkness within.