The Beta I Trusted

My Alpha is dead in the rain, and the silver tooth in my hand carries the scent of my fated mate. I am Konrad, enforcer of the Schwarzwald pack, and I have one night to find the rogue who killed him before the Beta heir names me a traitor. The trail leads to Liesel, a silver-haired healer living beyond our borders. She swears she did not do it, but the pack demands blood. Every clue I pull from the timber mills and the old silver mines drags me deeper into a pact my own father helped broker. I must choose between the pack that made me and the woman fate carved into my bones. The truth may cost me everything I swore to protect.

Place and Time: The Black Forest of southwestern Germany, near Freiburg, in the year 1871.