Bound by Instinct

The rule was simple: no bonds. He'd been enforcing it for six years.

Bound by Instinct is about the things we file under denial, and what happens when biology, proximity, and a woman with a grudge walk back across the territory line at the same time.

Kaye Moraan left Nightbound Pack ten years ago without telling Ronan McCarthy why. She built a consulting career, a city life, and a careful distance. When the pack hires her firm for a restructuring engagement, she takes the work because the money is good and because she's tired of being the one who flinched first. She packs suppressants for eight weeks. She is, on every front, prepared.

Ronan has rules. He has had to. The bond recognition hits him before he knows who's standing in his territory, and from there, every rule he wrote is a clock running down.

This is a fated mates story, but it's also a story about grief, about the lives we build to outrun the lives we wanted, and about an alpha who has to admit, slowly and painfully and on her terms, that the rule was never going to hold.

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Standalone with HEA. First in the Nightbound Pack series.

Content notes: explicit on-page sex, fated mates / bond compulsion, grief and bereavement (off-page, prior to story), heat cycles and biological imperative. Full content notes [here].