The Alpha’s Penance: a Dark Wolf Shifter Romance Savage Hearts

He broke her heart to save her life. Now she’s back to save his pack—even if it kills her.Five years ago, Alpha Varrick North did the unthinkable: he publicly rejected his fated mate. He told Vesper Valenti she was too weak, too human, and too fragile to survive in his world. He thought he was protecting her from the political sharks of the Council.He was wrong. He didn’t save her. He destroyed her.But Vesper didn’t die in the wreckage of her heart. She forged herself into something new. Something lethal. Using forbidden alchemy and a dangerous experimental serum, she traded her humanity—and her lifespan—for the strength to fight back. Now known only as “The Specialist,” she is the premier hunter of the supernatural, a mercenary with silver in her veins and ice in her soul.When a terrifying Skin-Walker begins slaughtering the North Pack, Varrick is left with no choice but to call in an outsider. He expects a stranger. He gets the woman he never stopped loving.But Vesper isn’t the girl he left crying in the ballroom. She is a weapon on a countdown timer, hiding a deadly secret about the price of her power. As they hunt a monster through the frozen mountains of Montana, the old bond flares back to life—a jagged, burning thing that demands to be felt.Varrick wants a second chance. Vesper just wants to finish the job and vanish before the poison in her blood takes her.Can an Alpha learn to kneel before the woman he wronged? And can a Hunter learn to trust the wolf who broke her, before the darkness consumes them both?The Alpha’s Penance is a gritty, high-stakes paranormal romance about sacrifice, revenge, and a love that refuses to stay dead.Tropes & Themes:🐺 Rejected Mate (The ultimate angst)❤🩹 Second Chance Romance💪 Human-to-Hunter Transformation (Badass FMC)🙇 The Grovel (He kneels for her)❄ Forced Proximity (Snowed in cabin)⚔ Touch Her And Die (Protective Alpha)🩸 Hurt/Comfort (Life-saving surgery scene)🕰 Ticking Clock / Terminal Secret