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Cora Thorne has spent five years being the perfect Luna to Alpha Silas Thorne—patient, polished, endlessly forgiving. But when her husband abandons her for the one hundred and first time to run to his high school sweetheart, something inside her finally breaks. Left humiliated at an airport, stranded on the side of the road, and forced to watch another woman take up space in her marriage, Cora makes the one choice Silas never believes she’ll make: she leaves. In the mountain town of Hollow Pine, she starts over with a quiet job, new routines, and the fragile hope of building a life that belongs to her alone. But Silas refuses to accept losing his mate. As guilt, obsession, and buried truths drive him to chase her across territories, Cora is forced to confront the full cost of loving a man who only valued her when she was disappearing. Between a relentless ex, a painful past, and the first signs of a gentler future, Cora must decide what love should feel like when survival is no longer the price.