Rejected by My Fated Mate

I'm the Omega nobody claims — until a mate bond snaps into place with a man who decides in ten seconds that I'm a problem he won't solve.Ulva Farkas has spent twenty-three years invisible: the packhouse's illegitimate daughter, serving a family that treats her like furniture. Then the Black Rock delegation arrives, and Nolan Conri — future Alpha, my fated mate — looks at me once and chooses to reject the bond in front of a hundred witnesses.I should be relieved. I'm not given the choice.Instead I'm delivered, by treaty, into an arranged mating with his older brother — the scarred, silent Alpha exiled to a ridge cottage since rogues tore his face open at nineteen. Josiah Conri doesn't smile. He doesn't explain himself. He keeps his distance and watches me with amber eyes that see more than I want.I came here broken by rejection. I didn't expect the broken Alpha to see me whole.A forced-proximity, marriage-of-convenience wolf shifter romance with a rejected-mate heroine, a scarred beast hero, and a fated bond that refuses to stay severed. Perfect for fans of possessive alphas, found family, and second-chance love. Book One of a steamy paranormal duology.