She was just doing her job.In Macadamia's underworld something is draining people dry and leaving nothing but puncture marks and questions.Agent Eloise Baker is good at finding answers. She just didn't expect the answer to land her in a strange house surrounded by pale eyed creatures who tell her she can't leave.The vampyres have stayed hidden for a century. Beauguard intends to keep it that way — until a red haired agent with a loud mouth and zero instinct for self preservation makes staying hidden considerably harder.She calls him fang boy. He can't stop thinking about her blood.They're going to have bigger problems than each other.

BLURBShe came back to burn everything down.Once the heir of a powerful Beta family, Lyra Valen was exiled after her father was executed for treason she knows he did not commit. Stripped of her name, her mate, and everything she was raised to inherit, she spent two years surviving in the borderlands and waiting for a way back in.The Alpha King handed her one.Darius Kael is feared across every territory he rules, cold, dominant, and in control of everything except the one secret that could destroy him. When he selects Lyra as his political bride, he expects a disgraced and compliant woman.Instead, he gets a woman who negotiates their marriage terms before the guards have even left the room.Lyra agrees to the marriage but on her own terms. She doesn't want his crown or his protection. She wants the people who took her family from her, and she will use every tool available to get them. Including him.What she doesn't expect is that the Alpha King, the most powerful and guarded man in the territories, is the one person she cannot resist.In a court built on betrayal, where every alliance has a price, Lyra must decide how much of herself she is willing to risk.