My Mate Smells Like a Secret

Debra's mother is dead. On the anniversary of her death, her stepmother Marley forces her to kneel, snatches the necklace her mother left behind, and smashes it to the ground. That night, Debra gets drunk at the wedding and stumbles into a stranger. He's impossibly attractive, and her wolf Ivy goes wild. They spend one night together. When she finds his ID card on the floor the next morning, her blood runs cold. The man she slept with is Caleb Wright, Alpha of the Thorn Edge pack—and he's her fated mate.

Caleb denies her. Marley's brother Colin had set the whole thing up, hiring a virgin to trap Caleb into paying off the Frosty River pack's debts. Caleb believes Debra was the bait. So when her father sends word to ask if Caleb is the father of her child, the answer comes back: no. Debra is branded a liar and a whore. Her father has her imprisoned on moldy bread and dirty water. Vicky, her mother's best friend who raised her like a daughter, breaks her out, but is killed by the pack's enforcer during the escape. Debra flees north, carrying her unborn child and a grief that will never heal.

Gale Quinn, the formidable female Alpha of the Zerik pack, takes her in. Debra works as Gale's financial manager, turning around a failing pack economy while raising her daughter Elena alone. One of the twins didn't survive—a loss she blames on the curse of Caleb's bloodline. When Gale sends her undercover to investigate corruption in Roz town, Debra walks straight into the man who ruined her life. Caleb is there on business, and he doesn't recognize her. He humiliates her again, treating her like nothing more than a hired escort. Through all of it, she keeps her secret. Elena is in the hotel room. And if Caleb finds out that little girl is his daughter, everything she's built could come crashing down.

But secrets don't keep forever. When the truth finally reaches him—that the woman he denied was carrying his children, that one of them didn't make it, that the daughter hiding in plain sight has his eyes—the mate bond he refused to honor comes roaring back. Caleb has spent five years believing a lie. Now he has to face everything he threw away. And winning back the woman he destroyed will take more than an apology. It will take proving he's finally worthy of the bond he once denied.