They called him a monster. She saw the truth.After years imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Lucian Vale has learned to survive behind silver bars-alone, broken, and feared. Everyone believes he slaughtered his own pack. Everyone but her.Elowen Hart is a trauma therapist assigned to his case, a sunshine-souled woman who refuses to see a beast where she knows a man still exists. What starts as cautious trust ignites into something far more dangerous-something ancient, soul-deep, and impossible to sever.When an attack on the facility sets them on the run, Elowen and Lucian must navigate a world that still wants him dead. But with a deadly alpha rising in the shadows, and Lucian's buried past clawing its way to the surface, survival isn't enough.To uncover the truth, they'll have to face the real monster behind the massacre-and decide what kind of future they're willing to bleed for. Heartbreaking and healing, darkly romantic and fiercely hopeful, Mated, Always is a story of second chances, soul bonds, and the sanctuary we find in each other.