"The next time you disappear on me, I will find you. And I always find what belongs to me. Do you understand?" "Y-yes," I whisper. "Say it properly." His voice drops lower, dangerous. "What am I to you?" "Alpha," I breathe. "Good girl." Maya Ashwood has never belonged anywhere. A wolfless omega surviving on the edges of the Celestial Moon Pack, she is invisible to everyone except the people who want to hurt her. The only warmth she has ever known comes from Dorian Voss, the Alpha heir, whose kindness she has mistaken for love her entire life. When a wounded stranger collapses at her feet in the forest, bleeding and barely breathing, Maya does the only thing her stubborn heart will allow. She saves him. He is rude, guarded, and infuriatingly impossible to read. And the moment he is strong enough to stand, he leaves without a word. She tells herself she does not care. She is wrong. When her world collapses in a single, shattering night, betrayed by the one person she trusted and condemned by a pack that never wanted her, it is the stranger who returns. Kael Draeven, the man she nursed back to health in secret, is not the wandering wolf she believed him to be. He is the Lycan King. And he has come back for her. But surviving a king's court is nothing like surviving a pack's cruelty. Old enemies follow her through the palace doors. New ones wear friendly faces. And the pull she feels toward a man she can never claim grows more unbearable with every passing day. In a kingdom fracturing under the weight of rogue uprisings and treacherous alliances, Maya must decide what she is willing to fight for. And whether the girl who was never chosen by anyone has the strength to choose herself.

"If you haven't given me an heir in three years, you never deserved to be my Luna." Alpha Kane's words hit me like a blade. And the worst part? He does not even know who I really am. For three years, I have been his Luna, his omega wife, the woman his pack whispers about and looks down on. I gave up everything: my name, my title, my birthright as the daughter of High Alpha Rowan Wells, the most powerful Alpha alive. The man every Alpha in the world, including Kane, answers to. All to be with my fated mate. I was going to tell him the truth. Tonight was supposed to be the night. But Kane came home from the border campaign my father ordered, with Beta Cole's daughter, Mira, clinging to his arm. Her belly round. Her smile sharp as broken glass. "She carries my heir," Kane announces to a room full of witnesses. "The pack will finally have what it needs." What Kane does not know: the man who gave him that mission is my father. What Kane does not know: he is already scheduled to travel to Silverholm in two days to make his report in person. He does not know I will be there waiting. He does not know my father already knows everything. I reject him. I walk away. I go home. What I don't expect: a second chance at a bond with a man who actually sees me. What I don't expect: that Kane, cold, ruthless, feared Kane, cannot let me go. What I don't expect: that the reason I never conceived was never my body's failure at all. Mira took three years from me on purpose. He has to live with what he threw away. And I have to decide whether the man who broke me has earned the right to help me build again.