"Useless. Defective. An absolute disgrace."Those were the words Arya heard on her eighteenth birthday when her wolf failed to emerge. Born as the daughter of the pack's strongest Beta, she was meant to be revered. Instead, she was stripped of her title, replaced by her cruel half-sister, and banished to the Omega quarters.For three years, she endures relentless abuse, scrubbing floors for the people who used to be her family. Her only remaining hope is Liam, her childhood sweetheart and the soon-to-be Alpha, who secretly promises to save her once he takes power.But when the mating bond clicks on the day of his coronation, Liam publicly rejects her in front of the entire pack, choosing her sister to be his Luna. He claims a wolfless weakling is entirely unfit for a modern corporate Alpha.Heartbroken and thrown into the pack's dungeon for daring to talk back, Arya accepts her fate to rot in the shadows.Until he arrives.Kingston is the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack, a billionaire Lycan King with a reputation so terrifying that even Alphas bow to him. He arrives to sign a corporate treaty, but when he inspects the pack's borders and finds the battered Omega in the cells, everything changes.He doesn't claim her aloud. He doesn't announce they are mates. Instead, with cold, calculated ruthlessness, he demands the broken Omega as a "tribute" to sign the treaty.To her pack's absolute shock, the most fearsome man in the world takes the defective girl away. Arya is terrified of her new, ruthless master. But behind closed doors in his penthouse, the cold King treats her like his sole obsession. And as his protective aura surrounds her, the ancient, terrifying wolf dormant inside Arya finally begins to wake up.What will happen when Arya's true power is finally unleashed under the Lycan's protection? Will she be able to trust the fearsome king who treats her like royalty? And what happens when her former Alpha realizes the catastrophic mistake he made and is willing to wage a bloody war to steal back the Luna he threw away?