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The Bouda do not kneel.

Zaki made sure of that — crossing an ocean on bare feet and fury, tracking the scattered survivors of her massacred clan through territories that wanted her dead. She returns to Wintermoon with a handful of Bouda and the scars to prove what it cost her. She has a village waiting, a queen who needs her, and a duty that leaves no room for anything else.

Then Tau arrives.

The alpha of a displaced lion pride, migrating to Wintermoon with what remains of his people after a war he almost lost. He fought for his land until there was nothing left to fight for, and the shame of surrender sits in him like a second heartbeat. He did not come to Wintermoon to start over. He came because there was nowhere else to go.

A sovereign warrior and a fallen alpha. Both carrying the weight of the people they saved and the ones they could not.

When Zaki's ridge drops without her permission the first time his scent reaches her, she does what any Bouda warrior would do — she ignores it. When Tau's lion goes still in his chest the moment she walks past him, he does what no displaced alpha should do — he follows her.

But Mother Fate does not care about pride, duty, or the walls two stubborn shifters have built around their grief. The mate bond is already burning, and Tau is not the kind of man who lets his prey walk away.

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