The Wolf She Rejected (US04)

They raised Lena Cole as a debt — a servant girl scrubbing the kennels of the Thorne pack, the richest old-blood family in a rain-soaked timber town. So when the fated bond flares between her and Kaine Thorne, the alpha's heir, and he rejects her in front of everyone rather than wed "the charity girl," the whole pack laughs. Lena just smiles. Because they don't know what she is. She is the last of the Namers — the lost bloodline that can hear a wolf's true name, and command any wolf that answers to it. One whispered word, and the beast that lunges for her throat lies down at her feet. She could run. Instead she stays — to protect an orphaned pup, to bury the family that scorned her, and to reckon with the man who threw her away and now can't stop wanting her back. But the old alpha has caught the scent of her power, and under the coming blood moon he means to carve the Namer's gift out of her. They made her kneel for years. Under that red moon, she'll teach the whole forest to kneel for *her*.