​"I, Alpha Brandon of the Crestwood Pack, reject you, Seraphina, as my fated mate and future Luna."​With those words, Seraphina’s world shattered. Stripped of her title, her pack, and bound in silver cuffs that muted her inner wolf, she was dragged to the Rejection Auction, a dark, elite underworld event where rejected wolves are sold to the highest bidder. She expected a life of servitude under a cruel master.​Instead, the entire auction room fell to its knees when a billionaire stranger shut down the bidding.​It was Valerius Thorne, the ruthless, reclusive Lycan Emperor who rules the supernatural underworld. He didn’t buy Seraphina to break her; he bought her because her suppressed wolf carries the extinct White Winter lineage, the only blood capable of breaking the lethal curse destroying his body.​Safe within Valerius’s obsidian palace, the contract is simple: she helps him break the curse, and he gives her the resources for the ultimate glow-up. As Seraphina transforms from a broken exile into a fierce, sophisticated force, the intellectual friction between her and the cold Emperor ignites into an undeniable, scorching passion.​But when the High Council calls for a grand summit, Valerius introduces his new partner to the world. Now, Alpha Brandon wants his rejected mate back. But he will have to answer to the Emperor first.