THE HYBRID'S SECRET

Jade survived her mother's murder by doing one thing: hiding what she really is. Half human, half wolf. The hybrid abomination that got her mother killed by her own pack. For six years, she's lived in the human city of Crescent Bay, suppressing her wolf, working double shifts at a diner, invisible and safe. Then Alpha Riven walks through the door. The most powerful werewolf on the West Coast. The ruthless leader of the Shadowfang Pack. The man whose storm-colored eyes see straight through every lie she's ever told. He doesn't ask her to come with him. He doesn't negotiate. One moment she's wiping down tables, the next his hand is around her wrist and his voice is in her ear: "You can walk out with me or I can carry you. Either way, you belong to Shadowfang now." Jade thought hiding her wolf would keep her alive. She never expected her human half to be just as valuable. Hybrids are myth. Legend. Extinct. But her blood can do things pure wolves cannot. Heal mortal wounds. Break ancient curses. Tip the balance of power between rival packs. Riven says he needs her for pack security. His eyes say something darker. The mate bond she's spent years suppressing roars to life every time he's near, and he knows it. Feels it. Uses it. His Beta warns her: "Alpha doesn't do attachment. You're a weapon to him. Nothing more." But weapons don't make Riven's control slip. Weapons don't make him stand guard outside her door every night. Weapons don't make the most dangerous Alpha in the region look at her like she's the only thing keeping him human. Then her old pack discovers she's alive. The same wolves who murdered her mother want to finish what they started. Because Jade isn't just rare. She's the key to a power that could destroy them all. And Riven will burn the world down before he lets anyone take what's his.