"I, Iris Zorya,” I said, the words tasting bitter in my mouth. I could feel every cell in my body protest against them, “reject you, Ronan Blackwood, as my mate and my Alpha.” “And I, Ronan Blackwood, Alpha of Nelion Pack, reject your rejection.” I stared at him as my world stopped and right then I wished I had never come back. My dead sister’s alpha was now my mate. . . Iris was the forgotten twin in the shadow of a perfect twin sister. When she turned eighteen she ran away from the pack and built a new life burying her past for good. Six years later, she returns home for one reason only: her sister’s funeral. It was supposed to be one day. One goodbye and then she is gone forever. But at the graveside, she discovers she is bonded to her sister’s husband, the pack Alpha. She is his second chance mate. Alienated by the pack her whole life, she was now fated to its king. To save her new life and everything she built, she rejects him in front of everyone. But he won’t let her go, because rejection means nothing unless he accepts it—and he refuses. Now the bond burns every time she tries to leave. The pack watches her with hope and the man she is supposed to marry feels her slipping away. The past she fled is now becoming her future. And no matter how much she tries, she feels like a replacement. Can her mate convince her to stay and that their bond is worth it even as everything around them threatens to tear them apart? #StaryWritingMarathon