The wolfless bride of the drying alpha

“At twenty-two, Arielle Ashford has accepted one cruel truth: she is worthless. The Alpha's daughter who never shifted. The girl her pack whispers about. The disappointment her family wishes they could erase. Her father barely acknowledges her existence. Her stepmother treats her like a stain on the family name. And her stepsister, Elara, has stolen the one person Arielle thought would love her-her fiancé, Kael Blackthorn. But betrayal is only the beginning. When her father makes a deal that will save his reputation, Arielle is handed over as a bride to Adrian Blackthorn, the feared Alpha of Blackridge. Once the strongest Alpha alive, Adrian is now dying from a mysterious silver poison that no healer can cure. His wolf has been silent for ten months. His strength is fading, and his council is already preparing for his death. A wolfless bride for a dying Alpha. Neither of them wanted this marriage. Arielle expects a cold husband, a lonely existence and a life spent hiding in his mountain keep. What she doesn't expect is the growl that erupts from Adrian's chest the first time her hands touch his bare skin. Mine. On their wedding night, he warns her, "Don't touch me without permission." Yet one night, when his body is failing and his head rests helplessly in her lap, his fingers tighten around her dress. "Don't stop," he whispers. Everyone believes Arielle is wolfless. But if that's true, why does Adrian's dying wolf awaken at her touch? And what is the mysterious white creature stirring beneath her skin every time his poison threatens to consume him? Perhaps the girl everyone called worthless is the only one capable of saving the most feared Alpha alive.”