by Ivy Asher
First published 2021
Seneca Rain has spent her whole life looking forward to bonding with her wolf spirit. When the moment finally arrives, she is already running. Three years ago, a brutal alpha seized control of her pack by force, and he has been pushing to claim her ever since. Seneca refuses to let that happen. She knows that bonding under his shadow could mean a wolf that bends to his will, so she tries to get out before he can act. She fails. Her alpha strikes during the bonding, and the violence fractures something deep between Seneca and her wolf. They come out the other side broken and feral, a state her pack calls rabid. As punishment for refusing to submit, the two of them are cast out and delivered to Ruin Falls, a savage pack ruled by Alpha Tyran, a man with a reputation to match the place. Seneca expects another enemy. What she finds is harder to categorize. Tyran is dangerous, but her fractured nature may need exactly that kind of danger to find its footing. The emotional core of the book sits in one question: can something shattered still be powerful, or does broken only ever mean lost.
Genres: fantasy, supernatural, adult, dark-fantasy, fantasy-romance, paranormal-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, brooding, dark, emotional, gritty, intense
Tropes: alpha-romance, broken-heroine, enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity
Setting: Ruin Falls
360 pages · Paperback · Independently published
Content warnings: abuse, physical-abuse, violence