In a pack where duty comes before love, heartaches are born out of sacrifices. And, sometimes, being the Luna means letting your Alpha marry another mate.

Finding out that Alpha Nikolas was my fated mate was like my wildest dream come true.

He was the heartthrob of the pack, and he was mine.

Newly mated and blissfully happy, we were ready to tie the knot, vowing to love each other till the end.

When the beginning becomes the end... Promises are lost in the chaos.

Until the letter from Shadowmoon arrived, shattering our world.

When the greatest joy becomes the deepest sorrow.

The Alpha of Shadowmoon had served us an ultimatum: Either Nikolas marry his daughter or Nightcreek will face war.

Being a pack that dwelled in love and harmony, Nightcreek could not survive a war. It was a death sentence for us.

So Nikolas rejected me, stripping me of my title and my place in his heart.

When the heart that once beat for you, begins to race for another.

Holding my heart in pieces, I watched him marry Freya, reading to her the vows that were meant for me and kissing her with a promise that was rightfully mine.

How do you just stop loving someone?

I retreated into the shadows but my love for him remained, and so did a secret — I was carrying his child.

One single night... and I was pregnant with the Alpha's baby.

No longer the Luna, I had no right to bear the Alpha's child. With Freya's hostility and enmity looming over me, hiding my pregnancy was the only means of protecting my baby.

Her mate rejected her, so she took away mine.

As if our burdens weren't heavy enough, Freya's past with the Alpha of the legendary Blacknight pack comes back to haunt us all.

A deadly conflict that threatens to destroy everything we hold dear.

Thirsty for revenge, hungry for power, and blind towards the safety of the pack she's supposed to protect and lead, Freya declares a war against Blacknight - a war that will end Nightcreek.

With the pack eager to prove its loyalty to their Luna, and Nikolas standing by his mate, Freya is unopposed.

Tensions rise and betrayal lurks in the shadows.

Mate less, pregnant, and with the elders trying to set me up with wolves from the rival pack, there seems to be no ray of light in the darkness that surrounds me.

How do you protect your pack when the Alpha wants nothing to do with the mate he rejected?

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Happily ever after (HEA).
Standalone novel.
Tropes: Forbidden love, alpha's rejected mate, secret baby, grovel romance, fated mates, second chance love.