Rejected By My Alpha King Stepbrother

Rejected. Shamed. Sent to the cold edge of the pack to disappear.Elowen “Wren” Ashford has spent her whole life as the Ashford girl, tolerated but never truly claimed. Her father died with his name dragged through the dirt, and the stain clings to her no matter how hard she works as a border runner for Silverpine. Then the full moon arrives, and fate makes its cruelest joke. The Thread snaps tight between Wren and Kael Ravencroft, the Alpha King. Her stepbrother by law. Her mate by the moon.In front of the entire pack, Kael rejects her.Exiled to Frostfall Outpost and choking on Echo Sickness, Wren learns the border is not just dangerous, it is staged. Signs do not fit. Scents are wrong. Secrets hide in old tunnels, and the council’s favorite elder is too eager to bury the past. With a loyal Gamma at her side and a healer who refuses to bend the truth, Wren starts pulling at the lies that killed her father and nearly destroyed her.But if she exposes the rot inside Silverpine, she will have to face the one man who broke her in public, and decide whether the bond between them is a curse… or a second chance she chooses on her own terms.