Adalee Carlson has spent thirteen years living with the damage her own family taught her to call weakness. Once a promising wolf in the Ashvale Pack, she now walks with permanent nerve damage, struggles to hold a full shift, and has been pushed to the edges of the bloodline she was born into. She has learned to survive without asking for help, because in her world, dependence has always come with a price.
Then Ashvale offers her to its oldest enemy.
Paul Camacho is the ruthless Alpha of Fenwood, the rival pack Adalee has been warned about since childhood. She expects rejection, humiliation, or another kind of captivity. Instead, the moment they meet, an unmistakable mate bond ignites between them.
Paul wants to protect her. Adalee has spent too long being controlled to trust any Alpha who says protection is for her own good.
With two hostile packs watching, an uneasy peace agreement hanging over them, and the pull between their wolves growing harder to ignore, Adalee must decide whether the most dangerous man she has ever met might also be the first one willing to let her choose for herself.
Crippled by My Family, I Mated the Rival Alpha is a steamy paranormal werewolf romance packed with fated mates, rival packs, forced proximity, family betrayal, wounded-heroine strength, possessive Alpha tension, and a romance built on consent instead of ownership.
For readers who love heroines who reclaim their power without being magically “fixed,” Alphas who must earn trust, and love stories where desire is instant but devotion is earned.
Enter the Blue Ridge packlands and discover what happens when the daughter they discarded becomes the one woman a rival Alpha refuses to treat as disposable.
