A former SEAL and legendary alpha-exiled and broken.A Wall Street math genius-dyslexic and burnt out.When their worlds collide, their bond will challenge everything the shifter world believes about alphas, mates, and power itself. She's a financial analyst from Wall Street. Brilliant, scattered, and burnt out-but not extinguished.He's a former special operations soldier with alpha wolf in his blood-and a high-maintenance macaw. Exiled from his pack. Unable to bond.Now they live on the same remote mountain-one drawn by desperation, the other by instinct.She doesn't expect a neighbor. He doesn't expect a bond.But when she shows up on his door with a basket of onions, a luminous smile, and a rambling theory about the five essential foods everyone needs daily, her whirlwind presence, unexpected courage and deep kindness begin to unravel both the man and the wolf. When she encounters a mysterious wolf in the wilderness, she must face the truth-the pull she feels is more than her imagination.And the man across the meadow is not what he seems.