They called me a fraud — the imposter who stole the true Luna's place. For three years I let them. I let my husband, Alpha Kaius Ravenscar, look at me like a mistake. I let his "fated mate" glide back into the pack wearing a mark I somehow never earned, watching everyone bow to the woman who was supposedly born to replace me. What none of them knew: my wolf wasn't missing. She'd been sealed — buried under a forbidden curse, along with a second bloodline even I didn't know I carried. And beneath the gowns they mocked, I was carrying Kaius's child. His heir. His secret. So before they could cast me out, I signed the divorce papers myself and disappeared. Five years later, I came back — with a daughter who shifts before her time, a bloodline the highest thrones of every species would kill to control, and a truth that turns every lie against them. Kaius wants me back now. He'll have to burn for it first. "You didn't lose a fraud, Alpha. You lost yoeverything."

Elena Hayes bought a red dress to save her engagement. By midnight, her fiancé had gotten her stepsister pregnant. Logan didn’t apologize. Her family didn’t defend her. They only told Elena to be mature about it. There was a baby now. A future Cross heir. She should step aside before she embarrassed everyone. Then Logan made the mistake of laughing in her face. “No man better than me would ever want a broke coffee shop girl.” Humiliated, shaking, and desperate not to fall apart in front of them, Elena grabbed the first man she saw. Adrian Cross. Logan’s older half-brother. The billionaire CEO who controlled the Cross family with a signature, a stare, and a reputation cold enough to silence a room. Elena only needed him for one lie. Adrian turned it into a deal. Seven days as his fake fiancée at the Cross Christmas Summit. In exchange, he would protect her sick brother, help her destroy Logan’s perfect holiday engagement, and make everyone who looked down on her regret it. It should have been simple. A contract. A performance. A little revenge wrapped in diamonds and champagne. But Adrian saw the woman everyone else missed. Not just the girl in the coffee shop apron. Not just the unwanted fiancée Logan threw away. But the secret designer behind the sketches Serena was so desperate to steal. The longer Elena stood beside Adrian, the harder it became to remember where the lie began. Because Adrian Cross didn’t pretend well. Not when he wanted something. And now, he wanted her.