Those numbers describe a long book. The Kindle edition of Bonds at War: The Virgin Is Mine runs 811 pages, and it's only book one of Sand Kastle's War Series. Goodreads already lists the next one, Hearts at War. If you're about to start, you're signing up for a long stay.
We don't host it on NanoReads. It's published on Dreame (rated 18+, still listed as ongoing there) and on Kindle. What follows is checked against those listings and Goodreads.
One thing first, since this title sometimes gets filed next to mafia romance: it isn't a mafia romance. "War" and "The Virgin Is Mine" sound like a crime-family book, but this is werewolves, packs and an academy. If you did come for mafia, the dark mafia romance hub is where those live.
What it actually is
Arden Stone is a virgin, and her mate is Jaxon Trevane, Alpha of the West. Then she finds out he's been sleeping with her best friend, Sienna Graves. The story is set around the Elite Order Academy, and the four Alphas who rule North, South, East and West are all part of it.
The book's own descriptions sort those four men into types: a heartbroken former mate, a strategist, a dangerous playboy, and a possessive one nobody can read. Jaxon is clearly the first. The listings don't line the other three up with a direction, so we won't either.
Dreame tags it Alpha, second chance, rejected, campus, pack, kickass heroine and seductive. Put together, that's a rejected-mate story set at a school, with the title's possessive claim aimed at a heroine who has every reason to say no.
The listing, checked
- Author
- Sand Kastle
- Series
- The War Series, book 1. Next: Hearts at War (per Goodreads)
- Kindle
- Released September 28, 2025, 811 pages
- Dreame
- 18+, ongoing
- Goodreads
- 4.32 from 131 ratings
- Setting
- Werewolf packs, the Elite Order Academy
Before you start
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Content notes
- Cheating: her mate and her best friend
- Rejection by a fated mate
- The heroine's virginity is a plot point, starting with the title
- Possessive Alpha heroes, more than one of them
- Adult content (18+ on Dreame)
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🐺Read free while you decide
All →If Jaxon's betrayal is the hook
Rejected by the Alpha King, then four protectors become her second-chance mates. The nearest shape to Arden's four Alphas.
Read chapter 1 free →
Her childhood-sweetheart Alpha rejects her under a wolf-witch's spell. His brother stays at her side.
Start it free →If the four rulers are the hook
A Silver Moon Alpha's daughter is fated to both twin heirs of the pack that killed her kin.
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Eva wakes with no memory in the home of Alpha twins who say she's their mate.
Open chapter one →If it's the school setting
Dragons instead of wolves: conscripted to a deadly riding academy, up against an arrogant elite cadet.
Try it free →If "mine" is the word you came for
She survives a crash and lands in the territory of the Alpha she fled seven years ago. His word for her hasn't changed.
Read chapter 1 free →More on the multi-love-interest side: what reverse harem means and the reverse harem hub. Revenge after rejection has its own title page too: His Rejected Mate's Revenge.
Quick answers
Can I read it for free?
It's on Dreame, where serials usually open the early chapters free and charge for later ones, and on Kindle. We don't host it, so check the current terms there. Every book on the shelf above starts free on NanoReads.
Who wrote it?
Sand Kastle. The Kindle edition (September 28, 2025) is listed as The War Series Book 1, and Goodreads shows Hearts at War next.
Is it reverse harem?
We can't confirm that. Four ruling Alphas are central and the setup points that way, but the Dreame tags we saw don't say reverse harem or why choose, and we haven't read the ending.
Is it a mafia romance?
No. Despite the title, it's a werewolf academy romance about packs, mates and four Alphas. There are no mafia families in the listings.