​"I, Alpha Jax, hereby reject you, Lyra, as my mate and future Luna."Publicly disgraced on her wedding day and replaced by her wicked stepsister, wolfless human Lyra is condemned to banishment. What her former pack doesn't know is that she carries a secret: she is three weeks pregnant with an heir—and harbors the extinct, divine Silver Strain in her blood.Before Jax can throw her to the rogues, the ruthless King Valerius of Bloodfang Citadel shatters the cathedral doors. Cold, lethal, and feared across the continent, Valerius marks Lyra on the spot, claiming her and her unborn child as his own.Taken to a fortress of ice and dark shadows, Lyra must navigate political vipers and a fierce, unsealed mate bond with a dark king who vows to protect her child—and tear her ex-mate's pack apart.