Daria is sure her night cannot get worse. First, she caught her boyfriend of six years kissing another woman. Then, when she confronted him about it, he pulled her out of the car and left her on top of a ridge, in the middle of the night, in a party dress, just a few days before Christmas. Then she spots the wolf.
The creature is behaving strangely, and despite using her magic to defend herself, it still manages to bite her. Knowing she needs to find shelter, she uses her powers and discovers a settlement in the middle of the woods. There she meets Ethan and Kate, the werewolf mates who run the Pine Ridge Pack. Upon hearing her story and informing her she’s now a werewolf, they offer her a place to stay until she figures out what she is going to do next.
After being bitten six and a half years ago, Mike has been a member of the Pine Ridge Pack. In that time, he has found a purpose and takes pride in the work he does for his pack. The only thing that’s missing is a mate with whom to share his life. Before his sister, Kate, mate-bonded to the pack’s alpha, Mike just assumed he hadn’t gotten a mate yet because he wasn’t born a werewolf. For the last few years, he’s been finding pleasure in a pack female, but he doesn’t think it’s anything more than about sex. She’s not his mate, despite her obvious desire to assume the mantle.
When Kate asks Mike to take Daria back to the city to collect her things, their attraction and chemistry are instant. But as Daria tries to get her life together, she’s resistant to starting something new with him—even more so when some random female tells her to back off of Mike.
When the two find themselves mate-bonded, can Mike convince Daria that they should be together? Or will Daria leave the pack when Mike’s former bedmate makes her life miserable?
Tropes: left on the side of the road by ex, she gets bitten; he has a territorial friend with benefits; orgasmic light shows; told to stay away, can’t; golden retriever x black cat; he’s always wanted a mate, she might not stay; fated mates; heats & knots
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Content Warnings
Suicidal Intention Over Potential Situation: At the possibility of having to use her powers against the ridge pack, Daria vows that she would force the lake pack to kill her before she’d ever do such a thing.
Parental Trauma: The FMC grew up in foster care, feeling unwanted. Mike’s parents were hyper-critical, so he always felt like a failure.
Toxic Relationship: The majority of the story revolves around the fact that for the last few years, the MMC has been hooking up with a female of the pack. She has assumed that it’s a romantic relationship. He’s only thought of it as sex with a friend. She gets territorial and tells the FMC to back off. She assaults her and then has a friend beat her up so she can accuse the FMC of doing it. She ignores the boundaries that the MMC tries to put up when he finds himself drawn to the FMC. She stalks both the FMC and the MMC.
Dubcon: The FMC goes into heat, leading her to have sex with the MMC when she had been trying to stay away from him up until that point.
Sexually Shaming Language: The ex-boyfriend of the FMC calls her a slut.
Violence: Instances of violence include but are not limited to- the FMC uses orbs of energy for self-defense, she gets bitten by a werewolf, she is knocked unconscious before being abducted, her ex-boyfriend handles her roughly during an argument, the former sexual partner of the MMC beats the FMC unconscious, the former sexual partner of the MMC has her best friend beat her up to make it look like the FMC attacked her, the FMC is corrected with a shock collar while she’s being held prisoner
Use of Sexual Restraints: The FMC uses her magic to restrain the MMC.
Abandonment by Partner: She is left on the side of the road by her ex-boyfriend, in the middle of nowhere, in late December.
Infidelity: She discovers her ex-boyfriend had been cheating on her with his childhood friend. He’s already sleeping with her by the next day, when the FMC goes to get her things from their shared apartment.
Abduction/Imprisonment/Torture: She is taken from the scene of an accident triggered by the werewolf who bit her. He takes her to the lodge where the lake pack resides. They keep her in spelled restraints and a shock collar so that she can’t escape or use her powers. She is deprived of food and water. Each day, she is drugged so that she can’t focus enough to use her magic.
Lewd Behavior Forced Upon the FMC: The werewolf who bit the FMC wants her for his own, but the pack alpha has forbidden him from touching her. He, however, uses the shock collar to make her whimper while he sits in the room and masturbates in front of her.
Alcohol Consumption
Explicit Sex
Shonna Preston 