Hero Alpha and Dying Stepdaughter

When their parents sever their mate bond, two sisters must each choose a parent. Ivy clings to their father, Gareth, the Alpha who gambled away his pack territory in underground wolf fights. Ember, who in a past life bled in the wolf pits to win it all back, chooses instead to follow their mother, Diane, to the Ashford Pack and its legendary Alpha, Alaric.

But rebirth came at a price. Ember's wolf burned its last life force to reverse time, and now she has only three shifts left before the end. Diane brings her along only for her fighting blood, expecting a warrior; Ivy believes she has claimed the better future.

At the training ground, Ember glimpses a faint mark on Alaric's arm—the mark of wolf decay, the same one spreading toward her own heart.