Rejected in front of the entire pack, stripped of her title, and cast out into winter's teeth, she has only one truth left to cling to: the life growing inside her is his. The Lycan King calls it law. His elders call it shame. But she refuses to die quietly—or crawl back for a crown that was never truly hers. So she runs. Across border stones and bitter rivers, through human roads and wolf-shadowed wilds, she makes a blood oath under an old moon that doesn't forgive easily. And when the King finally comes for her, it isn't with love. It's with regret… and a pack already sharpening knives. With hunters closing in, ancient laws waking, and a dangerous stranger offering shelter without ownership, she must choose what no rejected mate is ever allowed to choose: freedom… or the bond that still won't die. A gritty, emotional werewolf shifter romance packed with survival, pack politics, and a fiercely stubborn pregnant runaway Luna who won't be claimed again—unless it's on her terms.