He froze my accounts with one phone call. He watched my mother collapse on our kitchen floor and called it consequences. Three years ago Kellan Voss was the man I was going to marry. Then his father died on a building site and Kellan decided my father killed him. He did not investigate. He did not listen. He buried us. He took our company, our house, our name. I left London with two suitcases and my father's old site ledgers that everyone said were worthless.Now I am back. My name is on the bid for the Thames Quay project, right next to his. The same project his father died for. My company is smaller but my books are clean. And every clean line I draw exposes the lie in his report. He thinks he wants a rematch. He has no idea I came back to ruin him the right way, with the truth. But the truth is worse than we both thought. The man who signed the false report is not in his boardroom. He is in mine.

For three years, Lyra Vance was mocked as barren, worthless, and wolfless. The day she discovered she was finally carrying the heir of the Duskwatch Pack, she thought her suffering was over. But before she could tell her husband, Alpha Knox Whitmore, the news, she caught him cheating with her own elder sister. Instead of begging for forgiveness, Knox accused Lyra of adultery, turned the entire pack against her, and ordered a punishment so brutal that she lost the child she had prayed three years to conceive. Beaten and stripped of her Luna title, the Rejected Luna survives with one vow: everyone who destroyed her will pay. Death nearly claims her first, until Thorne Vale, the feared and cursed Alpha of Nightwalker, finds her. Thorne needs Luna to secure his position. Lyra needs his protection to avenge those who betrayed her. Their marriage of convenience is meant to be an arrangement, not a romance. But Lyra refuses to be controlled, and Thorne finds himself drawn to the woman who challenges him at every turn. As their alliance ignites into dangerous desire, Lyra discovers she can calm the wolf Thorne has kept chained beneath his fortress. Then secrets from her childhood reveal that her power was stolen long before Knox broke her, and that the same darkness may be feeding Thorne’s curse. She wants vengeance. He wants freedom. But when the truth about her stolen power threatens the man she is falling for, will Lyra finally reclaim her life, or lose the only love that has ever made her feel safe?

They told me my husband died in a tragic motorcycle crash along the dark winding curves of the Peak District. They handed me his jacket, offered empty condolences, and expected me to grieve quietly behind the counter of my greasy roadside diner.They thought wrong. My husband left behind a secret phone and a trail of altered shipping routes, proving his death was no accident. Before I can dig deeper, the Black Quarry MC sends their lethal enforcer to lock me down. Bram Kells is ruthless, silent, and carries a brutal reputation. He was also the last person seen screaming at my husband hours before his body was found in a ditch. Now Bram is stationed in my diner, watching my every move under the guise of protecting me. The tension between us is raw, toxic, and dangerously intoxicating. He claims he wants to keep me alive, but he refuses to give me answers. I refuse to be silenced or play the helpless widow. When the clues reveal that my husband was selling out his own brothers, my world shatters into pieces. Was Bram keeping me safe, or was he guarding the secret that killed the man I loved? And what happens when the growing fire between us forces me to choose between the dead past and the dangerous man holding my future in his hands?

Sie nannten sie unfruchtbar. Sie nannten sie wertlos. Sie glaubten, der Tod ihres ungeborenen Kindes würde sie endgültig brechen. Sie hatten sich geirrt. Nach drei Jahren voller Demütigungen erhält Lyra Vance endlich die Nachricht, für die sie so lange gebetet hat. Sie ist schwanger. In der Hoffnung, dass ihr ungeborenes Kind ihre zerbrechende Ehe retten könnte, eilt sie zu ihrem Ehemann, Alpha Knox Whitmore, um ihm die frohe Botschaft zu überbringen. Doch stattdessen entdeckt sie, dass er sie mit ihrer älteren Schwester betrügt. Ausgerechnet mit der einzigen Person in ihrer Familie, der sie vertraut hat. Noch bevor Lyra ihm von ihrer Schwangerschaft erzählen kann, wird sie des Ehebruchs beschuldigt, öffentlich zurückgewiesen und ihres Ranges als Luna beraubt. Der einzige Mann, der es wagt, sie zu verteidigen, wird tot aufgefunden. Eine grausame Bestrafung kostet sie schließlich das Kind, das sie sich so verzweifelt gewünscht hat. Zusammengeschlagen und jenseits der Grenzen von Duskwatch ausgesetzt, schwört Lyra sich eines: Alle, die für ihr Leid verantwortlich sind, werden dafür bezahlen. Dann begegnet sie Thorne Vale. Dem gefürchteten Alpha von Nightwalker, über den man sagt, dass er sich bei Vollmond in ein blutrünstiges Monster verwandelt. Selbst sein eigenes Rudel fürchtet ihn. Und die Ketten, die tief unter seiner Festung verborgen liegen, hüten ein schreckliches Geheimnis. Als die Ältesten von Nightwalker drohen, Lyra zu verstoßen, bietet Thorne ihr eine Zweckehe an. Er braucht eine Luna, um seine Ältesten zum Schweigen zu bringen. Sie braucht seinen Schutz, um die Menschen zu vernichten, die ihr Leben zerstört haben. Keiner von beiden hat vor, sich zu verlieben. Doch die Frau, der Thorne nur widerwillig Zuflucht gewährt, wird schon bald zur einzigen Person, die das Biest in seinem Inneren beruhigen kann. Und während Lyras lange schlummernder Wolf langsam erwacht, entdeckt sie eine entsetzliche Wahrheit. Der Verrat ihres Ehemannes war niemals der Anfang. Jemand hatte ihr bereits lange vor ihrer Ehe mit Knox ihre Macht geraubt. Und das Geheimnis, das in ihrem Blut verborgen liegt, bedroht alles, was sie gerade wieder aufzubauen versucht. Sie will Rache. Er will von seinem Fluch befreit werden. Doch wenn die Wahrheit endlich ans Licht kommt, muss Lyra sich möglicherweise entscheiden. Zwischen der Vernichtung ihrer Feinde und der Rettung des Alphas, der ihr gezeigt hat, wie es sich anfühlt, wieder zu lieben.

He didn't just reject me. He made me kneel on the frozen stone in my best white dress, looked right through me, and told the entire pack I was too weak to stand beside him as Luna. I had loved Damon since childhood, but on the night of the full-moon ceremony, he publicly humiliated and discarded me before the only pack I had ever known. I dragged my broken body away into the deep Australian wilderness, praying for death. In the dark shadows of exile, something ancient and terrifying began to claw its way up my throat—a hidden power my pack spent a lifetime trying to bind and erase from history. Damon thinks he can send me away and regret it from the throne, but he has no idea what he unleashed. Because as pack politics tear the borders apart and a deadly betrayal closes in from someone I trusted with my life, I am learning a very dangerous truth: A queen isn't born on a ceremonial ground. She is forged in the dark. Will I make the Alpha who broke me bleed for his forgiveness, or will the silent enemy hiding in my shadow destroy everything I love before I get my revenge?