He was never meant to feel calm. She was never meant to survive him.Zoya Khan is a Pakistani vet student at Columbia by day. Straight-A student, quiet, invisible. No one knows that every night at 2 AM, she slips out of her dorm window in a black tactical mask, leather jacket, and combat boots.She is not a student. She is a Hunter.Her mission is simple: Find the rogue cult that burned her entire family alive and make them pay. For that, she invented Silver Tracker Bullets - high-tech bullets that don't kill, but leave a silent nano-signal to track any monster in New York.But on a foggy Manhattan rooftop, her target changes.Sikandar Malik. 27. The most feared, richest man in New York. CEO by day, Lycan King by night. For 10 years, his inner beast has been uncontrollable - raging, restless, destroying everything. No cure. No mate.Until her.When Zoya's blood accidentally touches his bandage during a rooftop confrontation, something impossible happens. His raging pulse stops. His ancient wounds heal. The monster inside him sleeps for the first time in a decade.In Lycan law, that only happens with one person. Your Blood Bond. Your soulmate.He refuses to believe it. A simple Pakistani student cannot be his Blood Bond. So he does what a King does - he locks her in his Manhattan penthouse and says: "You are not leaving until I find out why you calm my beast."What he doesn't know is that the innocent girl in the pink suit sleeping in his guest room is the same masked hunter who kicked him on the rooftop last night. And she has just uploaded a hidden virus into his main server to steal his entire empire.Now the clock is ticking.The Blood Moon Tribunal is in 29 Days. If Sikandar cannot capture the cult leader and prove his power, the Lycan Council will take his throne and give it to his cruelest rival, Viktor.Zoya wants revenge. Sikandar wants his throne.But trapped in one penthouse, day and night, enemies become protectors. When the cult traps them both in an abandoned Brooklyn warehouse, they stand back-to-back - the Beast and the Hunter - fighting as one.He is the monster she was taught to kill.She is the calm he has searched for centuries.Will he sacrifice his throne for his Blood Bond?Will she sacrifice her revenge for the man behind the mask?THE HUNTER AND THE BEAST - A Forced Proximity, Enemies to Lovers, Billionaire Lycan King Romance.Tropes: Lycan King x Human Hunter Girl / Double Life / Masked Identity / Forced Proximity / 30-Day Countdown / Possessive Alpha / Hidden Virus / Penthouse Captive

She needed $50,000 to save her dying mother. He needed a fake wife to inherit his $100 million empire. Elara Quinn was a broke beauty blogger with $14.50 in her bank account when the coldest billionaire in London made her an outrageous offer. One year. No love. No emotions. Just a contract. Alexander Knight is known as the Ice King. He doesn't believe in love, he believes in transactions. To beat his power-hungry uncle and take control of Knight Enterprises, he needs to get married in 30 days. Elara is desperate enough to sign. But what happens when the fake kisses start to feel real? When his possessive touch in front of the cameras makes her heart race? And when his uncle threatens to expose their fraud and destroy everything? She signed a contract to be his wife. She never signed up to fall in love with the devil. A contract marriage. A dangerous billionaire. And a secret that could ruin them both.