Too Many Rules for One Heart
Elaine Keane, the brash little wolf of the Ravenhowl Royal Pack, is a twenty-year-old medical prodigy with a very special ability: causing trouble wherever she goes. Worse, she also holds grudges spectacularly well especially against the man who stood her up on their fateful arranged blind date: Alain Lancaster, Alpha of the Nightclaw Pack and her childhood-betrothed fiancé.
On that blind date, Alain never showed up simply because he wanted to call off the engagement.
Elaine said nothing, but in her heart she carved that humiliation and the man’s name into stone.
So when she was suddenly hounded by a credit-recovery agency for a debt of over a hundred thousand USD, Elaine didn’t hesitate. She signed Alain Lancaster’s name right onto the payment authorization form. A perfect counter-strike logical, justified, and… perfectly in line with her terrible habits.
But fate had a far sharper hand than Elaine expected.
The first time they met face-to-face, Alain came to Elaine’s school to see what kind of “little fiancée” dared act so outrageously. First encounter: Elaine used the reflection on his car window to apply lipstick, completely unaware that the man inside was watching her. Second encounter: they locked eyes onstage and realized they were each other’s mate but Elaine instantly denied it, dodging away so quickly that Alain ended up seeing another girl instead. After that, Alain lied and introduced himself as “Nicolas” to get close to her, because he knew she… absolutely hated him, and had even insulted him to his face.
And Elaine?
She only saw a stranger calm, mysterious, a little annoying, yet somehow capable of making her heart skip for reasons she couldn’t explain.
She had no idea that “Nicolas” was the man she despised most.
He knew exactly who she was, and he was waiting to see how she would survive when debt collectors, pack politics, and an ancient engagement all crashed down at once.
A brash young wolf, blazing like a mischievous sunbeam.
A silent Alpha, perfect like a magnificent frozen citadel, untouchable, immovable.
Two people who should have had nothing to do with one another… until Elaine kicked fate clean off its axis.
When the ancient betrothal pact between their families is unearthed, and when spiraling debts pull Elaine straight into the power games of the Four Great Tycoons, Alain is forced to make a choice:
Keep a safe distance or drag her into his dangerous world, where even Moonveil trembles before his authority.
But how can he keep his distance when Elaine’s scent makes the wolf within him, for the first time in his life, want to roar:
Mine.
A girl who ignites chaos everywhere she sets foot.
An Alpha who has always been in control, yet is losing control piece by piece.
A perilous bond between light and shadow.
Moonveil City was never prepared for the day Elaine arrived.
And Alain… even less so.
