She was raised to believe she was ordinary. She was born to end a war that's lasted longer than memory. On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Alexa learns three things in the space of a single terrifying hour: her best friends are not human, her mother has been hiding an entire world from her, and she is the last living heir to two bloodlines that have been trying to destroy each other for thousands of years vampire royalty on her father's side, werewolf royalty on her mother's. Thrown into a hidden society of Alphas, sorcerers, and ancient grudges, Alexa is bound by fate to Reagan Terrel, the fiercely protective Alpha King, a man she once knew, and never forgot, as a talking wolf from her childhood. As her powers awaken, so does the truth of what she really is: an immortal queen, unstoppable by anyone but her own mate, exactly like the queen before her who lost herself to power and had to be destroyed by the very man who loved her most. With a sorcerer hunting her, a hidden enemy wearing her own face, and a war neither world can avoid much longer, Alexa has to decide who she's willing to become to protect the people she loves and whether the boy who once healed his wounds at her feet as a wolf will still be there to hold her hand as a queen.

"He's the alpha women obey. She's the lone wolf who refuses to kneel because kneeling is what got her family killed." Ryley Halliwell has spent seventeen years hiding from the werewolf world. Her fated mate never marked her before he vanished into the massacre that destroyed her pack, and months later he'd already claimed someone else, leaving her alive, unmarked, and impossible to explain. She's been running from that world, and from fate itself, ever since. To everyone around her, she's a brilliant forensic accountant and a fiercely protective single mother. What she is underneath is the last surviving Luna of a bloodline someone still very much wants controlled. A summer contract pulls her into the territory of the wealthy, feared Orion Pack, and everything she's built starts to unravel. Alpha Blake Orion doesn't just want obedience from her, he wants to understand the pull he can't explain, the jealousy he has no right to, the protectiveness that grows sharper every time she's threatened. Widowed, guarded, and certain he'd never want anyone like this again, Blake finds himself unable to stay away from the one woman who won't bow to him. But Ryley's audit of Orion's finances is dragging old corruption into the light, and the man who orchestrated her family's destruction seventeen years ago is still out there, still powerful, still protected by a council that has far more to hide than anyone in Orion territory realizes. Caught between an old bond that never claimed her and a new one she doesn't trust herself to survive, Ryley has to choose: keep running, or finally stand and fight for the family she was never supposed to get to have.