“I was a virgin, Val. I needed practice... so I wouldn't hurt her when she takes an Alpha's girth. You were just a convenient, loose body to train on.” ------------------------------------------- For two years, Valeria Thorne, the battle-scarred Lead Warrior of the Frostpeak Pack, bled for her fated mate in secret. Alpha Cassian promised her the world, hiding their bond in the shadows until the day he took his father's crown. But on the night of the Alpha Ceremony, Cassian doesn't crown Valeria. He crowns her flawless, pampered, dormant twin sister, Aurelia. Publicly rejected, stripped of her rank, and exiled into the deadly northern blizzards to die, Valeria thinks her life is over. Her fated mate shattered her soul, and her own father cheered as she was dragged out into the snow. But the Moon Goddess isn't done with her. Bleeding out on the border of the forbidden Obsidian Empire, Valeria awakens the primal obsession of King Lucian—the most terrifying, ruthless Lycan monarch in the world. Lucian doesn't want a fragile porcelain doll. He offers the broken warrior a cold, calculated bargain: survive his lethal court, serve as his political weapon, and he will give her the army she needs to crush Frostpeak. But Valeria is hiding a secret of her own—the dormant, legendary magic of the Solar Moonflame. As the icy Lycan King realizes his "political weapon" is actually his fated second-chance mate, his cold detachment turns into a terrifying, possessive obsession. Cassian threw away a grunt. King Lucian is about to crown a God—and burn the entire continent to the ground to keep her.