Nicki Tash

Aria Voss was supposed to be a nobody's mate — until the bond snapped into place in front of the whole pack, and Alpha Kane Ashford rejected her on the spot. No explanation. No mercy. Just humiliation, dished out in public, sealed forever. She left that night and never looked back. Three years later, Aria is no longer the broken girl who ran. She's carved out a life, a name, and a spine of steel — until a chance encounter drags her into the orbit of Ronan Drake, the Lycan King. Ruthless. Ancient. Feared by every pack on the continent. And the moment his eyes lock on her, the truth detonates: Aria isn't just a mate. She's his. Ronan has spent centuries alone, refusing every bond offered to him — because he was waiting for the one his blood already chose. Now that he's found her, he has no intention of letting her go, rejection scars and all. He doesn't just want her back on her feet. He wants the world to know exactly what she is now: untouchable. But fate has a cruel sense of humor. Kane Ashford — the Alpha who rejected her, who's spent three years telling himself he made the right call — is about to find out who Aria became. And when the Lycan King's mate walks back into pack territory with a crown she never asked for, Kane realizes the girl he threw away is now the one woman on earth he can never have. Revenge doesn't have to be loud. Sometimes it just has to walk in the room.

Elena Torres needs a job, not a mystery. When billionaire CEO Damien Ashworth hires her as his personal secretary after an interview that lasts eleven strange, charged minutes, she chalks it up to luck. She doesn't know that the moment she walked into his office, Damien caught her scent and felt centuries of iron discipline crack in half. Damien has survived hundreds of years by keeping humans at arm's length and his hunger firmly leashed. Elena undoes both without even trying. Her blood calls to him. Her curiosity terrifies him. And the more he tries to protect her from what he is, the closer she gets to finding out anyway. As an old rival begins circling, using Elena as a weapon to unsettle him, Damien has to decide whether centuries of caution are worth more than the one person who has ever made him want to stop hiding. Elena has to decide how much truth she can survive, and whether the man cold enough to have ice in his veins is worth the danger of loving him anyway. A slow burn office romance with teeth.