From a very young age, Aria has lived among the shadows, treated as a slave and subjected to multiple abuses. She hoped that upon reaching the age of majority, she could escape from that terrible place, a pack that was not welcoming to her. Following the demands of her pack's Luna, Aria eagerly awaits the day she can finally escape from that place, but unexpectedly discovers who her mate is. But he, not willing to continue with this eternal union, rejects Aria as his mate. With those painful and heartbreaking words, an unbearable pain took hold of her chest, which was enough to make Aria decide to definitely run away from the pack, fleeing towards the territory of the vampires and facing new changes. Will Aria be able to fulfill what is predestined?

Katya has always been an outsider, shunned for having no wolf and unable to live up to the reputations of her Beta father and infamous warrior mother. Just before her 18th birthday, her family is stripped of their titles and shunned from the pack. They have only two options: go rogue or seek refuge in a Black Creek Pack. Katya suddenly finds herself caught up in a web of lies her parents told. Now not only does she need to prove herself to her new Alpha, but she has to keep him from finding out her secret. However, Katya finds keeping her secret harder than she thought when the Alpha shows a keen interest in her. She is forced to move into the packhouse. And with nowhere to hide, she is forced to go to extreme measures to keep him from finding out she has no wolf. But darkness looms, and secrets come to light, more than she ever imagined. Now Katya doesn’t know who to trust or who to turn to when everything she thought she knew was just another lie of a bigger secret kept. Just when she believes she has all the pieces of the puzzle, does she learn the Alpha is keeping a secret of his own. She is his mate. There is just one issue: Katya has no wolf, and if he figures that out, will he keep her or shun her as her last Alpha did?

To avoid serious bottlenecks, components of the Internet and of intranets-such as servers, browsers, and the access networks-must be properly designed, implemented, managed, and monitored. Beginning with the basics, Intranet Performance Management sets forth the standards, methods, and tools that can simplify and unify systems and network management, avoid the seemingly inherent problems associated with them, and contain costs. In this book, world reknowned expert Kornel Terplan addresses: Proactive server, browser, and access network monitoring Managing and authoring home page content Traffic management and load balancing in the access networks Reviewing and evaluating usage statistics using log files These tasks-essential to the success of an intranet-require the active and diligent work of the management team. Effective performance of these tasks allows for the use of inexpensive browsers, facilitates education, and improves Internet culture and scalability.