Lyra was supposed to become the Luna of the most powerful Alpha in the northern territories. Instead, she was imprisoned for his murder. Kaelen never should have chosen a human mate. As Alpha, his marriage should secure alliances and protect his throne. But years ago, when he was wounded and hiding in the slums, Lyra saved his life without knowing his name, rank, or the danger surrounding him. He never forgot her. Now Kaelen has defied the High Council and chosen Lyra as his Luna. Their wedding should have changed everything. Instead, Kaelen collapses after drinking from his wedding chalice. His pulse disappears. Lyra is immediately accused of poisoning him. Princess Vespera seizes control, brands Lyra a human assassin, and throws her into the deepest prison beneath the citadel. Everyone believes Kaelen is dead. Then Lyra receives a message from him. *“If you are reading this, they have taken you exactly where I feared they would.”* If Kaelen knew this was coming, why didn't he warn her? What was he hiding? While Lyra fights to survive, strange changes spread across the kingdom. Ancient assets belonging to the supposedly destroyed Obsidian Trust suddenly awaken. Trade routes shift. Granaries change hands. Debts disappear. Someone is moving pieces the Royal Council cannot control. Then Lyra discovers a sealed iron cylinder hidden inside her prison, a secret connected to a past the kingdom tried to erase. And perhaps to her. Lyra came to the citadel believing she had lost her mate, her freedom, and her future. She was wrong. Someone wanted her exactly where she is. And when the kingdom discovers what the human prisoner is capable of, they may realize the woman they imprisoned for murder is far more dangerous than the murderer they were looking for.

Odessa Vane thought burying her husband would be the hardest part of her week. Then gunfire tore through his funeral, shattering a headstone inches from her head, and a stranger in a leather jacket pulled her to safety before she understood she'd almost died. That stranger is Soren Blackwood, president of the Emberline Motorcycle Club, and the son of a man serving five years in prison for a crime he swears he never committed. A crime Odessa's late husband, Desmond, may have helped bury him for. Desmond hid forty million dollars before he died, and somehow, Odessa is the only person who can find it. As a forensic accountant, she's spent her career reading financial patterns other people miss, patterns that quietly reveal what powerful men would rather keep hidden. The coded ledger she uncovers in Desmond's office leads her somewhere she never expected: straight back to Julian, the uncle who raised her since she was fourteen years old, the one person she has never once thought to question. Now someone is watching her. Someone knows exactly what she's found. And someone is willing to go after her younger sister to get it back. Soren offers Odessa protection, though she has every reason to fear him and no reason to trust him. His father was destroyed by her family's testimony. He has spent five years wanting someone to answer for it, and she may be the only person left who can. When their enemies realize fear alone won't break her, they force Soren and Odessa into a marriage neither of them wanted, one built on protection and secrets, between a biker president and the widow of the man he was raised to hate. Soren promised to keep her alive. He never promised he wouldn't break her heart. And the deeper Odessa digs into her husband's death, the more she suspects the man she was taught to fear may be the only one who was ever willing to fight for her, if the truth doesn't destroy them both first.