The Chase

In a dying human city clinging to survival, nineteen‑year‑old Rory has spent her life staying small, quiet, and unnoticed. But when she’s framed for a crime she didn’t commit, her fate is sealed: execution… or transfer to the territory of the Wilds—the ruthless shifter clans who rule everything beyond the city walls.

Her only chance at freedom is The Chase, a brutal tradition where human women are released into the wilderness and hunted by Alpha wolves. Survive twenty‑four hours, and she earns her life back. Get caught, and she becomes the mate of the Alpha who claims her.

Rory enters the forest terrified, unprepared, and determined to outrun monsters. She never expects the most dangerous one to save her.

Draven—silent, scarred, and feared even among his own kind—wins the right to claim her. But instead of cruelty, she finds a man torn between instinct and restraint, power and mercy, duty and rebellion. A man whose protection may be as perilous as the world he comes from.

As Rory is thrust into the heart of shifter politics, rituals, and ancient laws, she discovers that surviving the Chase was only the beginning. The Wilds are full of secrets, and Draven’s family is the most dangerous of all. When a forbidden bond forms between them, it threatens to ignite a war—and Rory becomes the spark everyone wants to control.

Hunted by enemies, bound by instinct, and trapped between two worlds, Rory must decide who she is in a place where humans are prey… and where loving an Alpha might cost her everything.