Synopsis Isabella Knight was brought to the palace at age 5.Not as family. As inventory.Queen Samantha found her dumped, and kept her for one reason: her face.For 13 years Isabella called Ricardo Knight "Big brother".Hybrid prince. Heir to the Vampire and Lycan throne.Cold. Distant. Untouchable.Everything shattered the night Ricardo rejected his fated mate.Not in a ballroom. In a nightclub.Because she was a stripper and a Witch. He told no one. Only the Lycan King knows.To the world, Ricardo is still waiting.But the bond snapped.And a new one ignited.With Isabella.But Isabella already felt a bond.The day Jake Harris walked into the palace as a broke, orphaned Lycan guard. And in the hallway, when he called her "mate", her blood answered.A bond that shouldn’t exist.Now the palace is a cage.Queen Samantha wants the bond buried. She’s spent decades perfecting her crown and her plans. Isabella ruins all two.Because Samantha isn’t just queen. She’s a witch.She was only crowned because Ricardo’s real mother, a vampire, was declared "dead".The King faked it to protect her from the council.Ricardo knows the truth.About his mother in hiding.About why Isabella was really brought here.He’s possessive. Furious. And he won’t let "brother" be the last word.One rejected prince.One Lycan guard with a forbidden bond.One human girl who was never supposed to matter.Caught between two bonds and a witch who will kill to keep her throne, Isabella must survive.She spent 13 years calling him brother.Now the bond is forcing her to choose.Love was supposed to be optional.For Isabella, it’s a matter of life and death.