Saleena

He offered me five million a month to stay out of his sight. I smiled, took the card, and silently vowed to never fall for him. It didn’t work. Ginny has been poor her entire life. When she’s suddenly discovered as the long-lost daughter of a wealthy family, she thinks her luck has finally turned. Instead, she’s sent to marry Sebastian Sterling—the ruthless head of the Sterling Group, a man whispered to be so cold-blooded they call him “The Reaper.” On their first day as husband and wife, Sebastian barely looks at her. He slides a black card across the table. “The housekeeper deposits money monthly. Don’t appear before me if it’s not necessary. Especially if it is.” Ginny blinks back tears, takes the card, and clenches her fists—just to make sure she doesn’t accidentally laugh out loud. Everyone expects the beautiful but disposable Mrs. Sterling to be cast aside within months. Other women circle, waiting for her to fall. But they don’t know that the “poor little wife” has a secret. When a viral thread asks: “Your husband gives you fifty thousand a month but never comes home—would you accept?” Ginny logs onto her alt account and replies: “Fifty thousand? My husband gives me five million. He can come home or not—I’ll be traveling the world. If he wants to see me, he can make an appointment.” The post goes viral. The comments mock her mercilessly. That night, Sebastian finds her in a five-star hotel suite. His lips brush her ear, his voice low and dangerous. “So, Mrs. Sterling… about that appointment.” He thought he was buying a wife. She thought she was getting a paycheck. Neither expected to fall.

Katya has always been an outsider, shunned for having no wolf and unable to live up to the reputations of her Beta father and infamous warrior mother. Just before her 18th birthday, her family is stripped of their titles and shunned from the pack. They have only two options: go rogue or seek refuge in a Black Creek Pack. Katya suddenly finds herself caught up in a web of lies her parents told. Now, not only does she need to prove herself to her new Alpha, but she must keep him from discovering her secret. However, Katya finds keeping her secret harder than she thought when the Alpha shows a keen interest in her. She is forced to move into the packhouse. With nowhere to hide, she is forced to take extreme measures to keep him from discovering she has no wolf. But darkness looms, and secrets come to light, more than she ever imagined. Now Katya doesn’t know whom to trust or whom to turn to when everything she thought she knew was just another lie of a bigger secret kept. Just when she believes she has all the puzzle pieces, she learns the Alpha is keeping his own secret. She is his mate. There is just one issue: Katya has no wolf, so what will happen if he figures that out? Will he keep her or shun her as her last Alpha did?