She swore she'd never shift again. He fled across dimensions to escape destiny. One forbidden healing changed everything. Marika Edgewater hasn't been whole since the night her husband died. As a widowed mother raising the future Alpha of her pack, she's buried her grief beneath responsibility and locked her wolf away where the pain can't reach. But when a rival pack's brutal attack forces her transformation and leaves her bleeding out in the forest, a mysterious stranger's touch doesn't just save her life—it binds their souls together forever. Evan crossed dimensions to escape an arranged marriage, finally free to live on his own terms. Using his healing gifts on the dying wolf should have been simple. Instead, he's accidentally mated himself to a fierce shifter mother who's bound by laws that demand his death for knowing her secret. One accidental bond. Two broken souls. A love that defies every rule. As Marika struggles with the mate bond she never wanted, her seven-year-old son embraces the father figure he's been missing. But pack politics don't forgive forbidden love, and the rival Alpha who orchestrated her ambush will stop at nothing to claim her pack—even if it means eliminating everyone she loves. When her son is kidnapped and ancient secrets surface about bonds between shifters and Evan's kind, Marika must choose: break the mate bond and lose her soul, or embrace the alien healer and shatter centuries of tradition. The fated mate bond is just the beginning...