The bond chose him. Her pack is still at war with his. And the mark on her wrist doesn't care about any of that.
Marlowe Hale did everything right.
She stood in the ritual circle. She agreed to the ceremony that would end fifteen years of pack bloodshed. She was ready to bind herself to Corbin Vane — the alliance her father built, the peace that would finally cost the right amount instead of the wrong one.
Then the mark landed in the wrong direction.
Forty feet across contested ground, eyes gone black with the effort of holding his wolf back, stood Torin Ashgrave — Alpha of the enemy pack, carrier of a generational curse that is writing a slow death sentence on his own skin, and the last wolf on earth that the moon should have chosen for her.
He didn't ask for this either. He already knows what wanting does to an Ashgrave. He's been watching it kill his father by degrees his entire life.
Their options are simple and terrible: reject the bond and watch him die faster. Accept it and upend everything both packs are built on. Or find a third path — thirty days on neutral ground, a cursed alpha and a pack healer with a medical notebook, and the specific danger of two people who are very good at not wanting things discovering that they are not actually as different as fifteen years of feud mythology told them.
Because the secret buried in the pack archive for sixty years changes everything. The feud. The curse. The ceremony that went wrong. And the specific question that Marlowe has been refusing to ask herself since her brother died on a border that should never have existed.
What if it wasn't them? What if it was never really about them at all?
Bound to the Wrong Alpha is a slow-burn paranormal romance about a woman who heals things for a living and an alpha who has been treating his own death as a paperwork problem — and what happens when fate decides both of them have been managing instead of living for long enough.
Expect dual POV, a curse with a cure hidden inside the bond, pack politics with real consequences, and an ending that dismantles a sixty-year lie while building something real from the rubble.
Tropes**:** Rivals to Lovers · Fated Mates · Forced Proximity · Slow Burn · Forbidden Love · Cursed Hero · Pack Healer Heroine · Pack Politics · Dual POV · HEA
