Lila

Four years as the Ashwood pack's healer earned Lila Thorne a mate bond and a broken heart. Under the blood moon she catches her alpha, Rowan, with a visiting luna-and she tears their bond open in front of the whole pack. She leaves with a duffel bag, a dead grandmother's grimoire, and a scar on her wrist that won't stop bleeding. Three states south, in a bayou town where the wolves are outcasts, she builds a practice, a fighting circle, and a life no alpha can take. Then the rival pack raids her clinic and takes three of her patients hostage. She sends one call, knowing exactly whose wolf will answer. Rowan comes. He goes to his knees in her clinic and stays there for six months of small mercies. Lila doesn't need him to save her. She needs him to prove he can kneel while she does it herself.