Her brother died because he was a wolf standing too close to vampire ground. She's spent twenty years certain that peace between their kingdoms is a lie and she's about to walk straight into the heart of it to prove it.Princess Seraphine Valorwyn volunteers for the one mission no one in her family wants her to take: live as a hostage inside the enemy's court, unarmed, for three moons, to uncover what's really killing the border. What she doesn't expect is Prince Dorian Vaelthorn composed, careful, and inexplicably impossible to stop thinking about from the moment she hears his name.What she really doesn't expect is her own wolf recognizing him as her mate before Sera's mind catches up, a bond vampires have spent centuries dismissing as nothing but wolfish folklore.As ancient magic, old grief, and a conspiracy neither kingdom can see coming collide, Sera and Dorian are pulled into something far more dangerous than politics: a love forbidden by blood, by crown, and by a hundred years of war neither of them started. Someone they trust is not who they claim to be. Someone who loves Sera has never told her. And somewhere behind it all, an enemy is counting on exactly this kind of love to finally burn both kingdoms to the ground.🐺🦇 Some bonds are written by the moon. Some truths are buried by the blood. And some loves are worth burning a crown for.⚠️ +18 mature fantasy romance, forbidden love, steamy tension, political intrigue, and a twist you won't see coming.

Adrian Vale has everything a man could want wealth, power, influence, intelligence, and a future waiting for him as the head of one of America's most powerful corporate empires. But behind his perfect life is a man who has forgotten how to live without control.Abandoned as a child and taken in by billionaire businessman Richard Vale, Adrian has spent twenty-two years proving that he deserves the family and future he was given. Now, at thirty-two, he is finally about to become CEO of Vale Meridian Group.Adrian has one rule: never let emotions interfere with ambition.Then Elena Marlowe walks into his life.Elena is an investigative journalist determined to expose the secrets hidden behind Vale Meridian's polished reputation. She is intelligent, fearless, stubborn, and completely unimpressed by Adrian's wealth or authority. To Adrian, she is an irritating threat to everything he has worked to protect.To Elena, he is exactly the kind of powerful man she has spent her career investigating.Their first encounters are filled with suspicion, arguments, and undeniable attraction. Neither wants to admit what is happening between them, but the more they fight, the harder it becomes to stay apart.Then Elena discovers something buried inside Vale Meridian's history something connected to Adrian's childhood.The truth could destroy the family that Adrian has spent his entire life protecting.As Elena gets closer to the truth, someone begins trying to stop her. Adrian is forced to choose between protecting his family's empire and protecting the woman who has become the one person he cannot afford to lose.But the deeper Adrian digs into his past, the more disturbing the truth becomes.What if the family that saved him as a child was hiding the real reason they brought him home?What if the life Adrian spent twenty-two years protecting was built on a lie?And what happens when the man who never needed love finally discovers that love may be the only thing worth losing everything for?