Alessandro never expected to find his mate in the dungeons of his own pack.

After a brutal skirmish with enemy wolves encroaching on his borders, his warriors bring back a captive—a woman who fought viciously against them, refusing to back down even when outnumbered. When Alessandro goes to interrogate her, expecting a defiant rogue or a spy, the moment their eyes meet, his entire world shifts.

She is his mate.

But she doesn’t look at him with awe or longing—she looks at him with hatred. She is no rogue but the daughter of an enemy Alpha, captured in battle, her wrists bound in silver.

Alessandro is torn between duty and instinct. His pack expects him to be ruthless, to extract information, to use her as leverage in the growing conflict. But his wolf howls for him to protect her, to claim her.

She is just as conflicted. Bound by loyalty to her pack, she refuses to accept the bond, seeing him as her captor rather than her mate. Yet, as the days pass and their fates intertwine, tension simmers beneath their battles of will.

Will Alessandro risk everything—his pack, his honor, his carefully built walls—to free her? Or will duty force him to sacrifice the one thing fate has given him?