The Forgotten Mate of the North

Three months ago, Emma Carter was Luna of the most powerful pack in the north. Three months ago, she stood beside her mate Alpha Liam Hayes in battle against rogue wolves. Three months ago, a blow to the head erased everything. When she wakes up in a hospital bed, she does not know the man sitting beside her. She does not remember the war. She does not remember falling in love. She does not remember the mate bond that ties her soul to his. All she knows is that a stranger is calling her his Luna and she wants to go home. But the home she remembers is not the Alpha's fortress. It is a small cabin in Willowbrook where she grew up, where her sister still lives, where life was simple before she became someone important. So Emma runs. She leaves the man who claims to love her and returns to the only place that feels real. Liam follows her. He does not force the bond. He does not demand she remember. He shows up in her tiny village as a stranger and starts over. He takes a job at the local lumber mill. He rents a cabin down the road. He sees her every day at the bakery where she works and pretends he does not know her. But Emma is not stupid. She knows this man is watching her. She knows he is lying about why he moved to Willowbrook. She knows he is hiding something big. And against every logical thought in her head, she is drawn to him. As winter deepens and Emma starts rebuilding her life, she discovers pieces of who she used to be. A warrior. A leader. A woman who fought beside the most dangerous Alpha in the north. But she also discovers something terrifying. The rogues who hurt her are coming back. They want to finish what they started. They want her dead. Liam will burn the entire north to keep her safe. But Emma is done being protected. She is done being told who she is. She is done letting her past control her future. When the rogues attack Willowbrook and Emma has to choose between running or fighting, she makes a decision that changes everything. She fights. Not as Liam's mate. Not as the Luna she forgot. But as the woman she is choosing to become. In the end, the real question is not whether she will remember him. It is whether she will choose him anyway.