A girl going into heat in the middle of a press conference, surrounded by Alpha politicians who didn't plan to show the world their true, volatile nature? Causes a bit of mayhem.

Being the girl whose first heat made every mayoral candidate go into a rut on national television...?

I thought the utter humiliation sucked-that losing my job for something out of my control was as awful as it got.

I was wrong.

He came from the shadows. Told me I belong to him. And then... Then he showed me exactly what that means.

But powerful as my Alpha suitor is, his ruthless possessiveness might be the ruin of us both.

I am not a trinket. I am not a thing to own. And I will never surrender.