Three Alphas forsook her. One King could change her destiny.Gideon Hale was once the cherished princess of the Hargrove household, adored by three Alpha brothers who promised she would always belong beside them.But when Maddox, Ronan, and Kellen discover their true fated mate, Gideon loses everything.Stripped of her home, her dignity, and the only family she’s ever known, she spends the next year serving the very people who once swore to protect her.Until the Offering.Every year, the feared Lycan King demands a woman from each werewolf pack. Those taken are never heard from again, and whispers of the ruthless monarch’s cruelty haunt every territory.When another woman’s name is drawn, Gideon does the unthinkable.She volunteers to take her place.Death at the hands of a monster seems preferable to another day beneath the Hargroves’ roof.But King Rheinhardt Draegor is nothing like the monster she’s been taught to fear.Instead of a death sentence, Gideon finds herself thrust into a dangerous royal competition, surrounded by beautiful rivals, deadly secrets, and a king whose attention she never wanted.Rheinhardt has spent eight years searching for a mate who never appeared. Gideon has spent a lifetime longing to be chosen.Neither realizes that fate has been keeping its greatest secret.She was forsaken by three. But what happens when the most feared king in existence decides she’s the one woman he cannot lose?

Wilhelmina “Willa” Bennett has always been good at staying unnoticed. Shy, reserved, and more comfortable behind a newspaper column than in the spotlight, she’s built a quiet life for herself and intends to keep it that way.Then she’s sent to interview Theodore Alessandro De Luca.Powerful, intimidating, devastatingly handsome, and far too intense for her liking, Theodore is the kind of man who commands a room without raising his voice. From the moment Willa steps into his office, something about him feels… off. The way he watches her. The way he seems to know when she’s nervous. The way being near him makes every instinct in her body come alive.What Willa doesn’t know is that Theodore recognized her the second she walked through his door.Not her face.Her scent.Theodore has spent his entire life knowing exactly what he is, what his family expects of him, and what the moon is capable of awakening. But nothing prepared him for the quiet human woman sitting across from his desk.Because Willa isn’t supposed to be part of his world.She isn’t supposed to be his.And yet every instinct he possesses is telling him the same thing.Mate.As Willa is pulled deeper into Theodore’s dangerous supernatural world, attraction becomes obsession, secrets begin to unravel, and she discovers that monsters aren’t always the creatures hiding beneath the full moon.Sometimes, the most dangerous thing of all is what the moon makes you want.