Vanessa Beard has spent twenty years believing the worst thing a werewolf can be is wolfless.After surviving the fire that killed her parents, she grows up on the edge of Cascade Ridge territory, tolerated by the pack but never truly accepted. She cannot shift. She has no recognized rank. Even her memories of the night that destroyed her family have been dismissed as trauma.Vanessa has learned to survive by staying useful, quiet, and out of the way.Then Nathanael Mi...