For Rye Alden’s whole childhood, she’d been told by her grandmother that the mate bond was special and made the two connected inseparable. It could not be any further from the truth.Her father, Jacob Alden, is a human professor who is mated to Olivia Alden, a werewolf politician. And what did she see during his funeral? Her mother networking with other werewolf politicians who came to pay their respects.For Rye, the mate bond is just an artificial connection to ensure the survival of the werewolf species, and her proof was her mother, who practically abandoned her and her father when she gave birth to her more werewolf siblings.This belief will soon be tested, however, when she finds her mate. Not just any werewolf, but the king of werewolves himself, Xavier Dorin. Can she hold fast to her beliefs, or will she fall deeper and deeper into the King’s arms?