Bound by Instinct

She came back for the work. The bond had other plans.

Kaye Moraan has spent ten years building a life on the other side of the pack territory line — a consulting practice, a human city, a carefully maintained distance from the alpha who never knew why she left. When Nightbound Pack hires her for a restructuring engagement, she tells herself it's professional. She packs eight weeks of suppressants and tells herself that too.

Ronan McCarthy built the anti-bond rule in the first year of his grief, and he's been enforcing it ever since. When Kaye walks onto his territory, the bond recognition hits him before he knows who she is. He files it under denial. He's been filing a lot of things under denial for six years.

On pack territory, suppressants fail. Biology doesn't negotiate. And the alpha who built a rule against everything she is keeps showing up on the wrong side of her door.

She came back for the work. She's staying for something she stopped letting herself want a long time ago.

Bound by Instinct is a standalone paranormal romance with explicit heat, alpha/omega dynamics, fated mate tension, and a guaranteed HEA. Book 1 of the Nightbound Pack series.