"I hate you." He smiled. "You think this is hate?" His fingers lifted my chin. "Stay with me long enough, princess... and I'll show you what hate really looks like." Ashina Crawford had only one dream to escape the family that had spent years calling her cursed. She was six days away from leaving for college and starting over. Then her father sold her. Traded to the feared Rogue Alpha King in exchange for an alliance, Ashina is forced into a mateship with a man whispered to be cursed, a king whose mates never live long enough to become his Luna. Determined to survive, Ashina refuses to become another name on his graveyard of broken promises. But the more she fights him, the more the ruthless Alpha becomes obsessed with the one woman he was never supposed to keep. In a kingdom built on blood, betrayal, and ancient curses, one question remains... Will Ashina break the Rogue King's curse... or become its next victim?

The first rule of being the coach's daughter is simple: never fall for one of his players. I learned that lesson the hard way. After Jason, the rival team's star quarterback betrayed me and shattered my heart in front of the entire campus, I swore I'd never let another athlete get close enough to hurt me again. So I buried my dreams, focused on nursing school, and promised myself that hockey players would never be more than patients or strangers. Then Adrian Calloway walked back into my life. The university's untouchable hockey captain, my best friend's infuriating older brother and father's star player. The more I try to avoid him, the more our lives become tangled together until one unexpected deal changes everything. Suddenly, the campus is convinced we're the newest couple everyone envies. while behind closed doors, we're both hiding truths that could destroy far more than our hearts but fake feelings have a dangerous way of becoming real especially when old betrayals refuse to stay in the past. Someone wants to tear Adrian's world apart and someone refuses to let me move on. The closer I get to the man I was never supposed to love, the more I realize that some games aren't played on the ice... They're played with secrets and this time, losing could cost us everything.

"Get the hell out of my house, human." Dave Walker's voice was ice and thunder the alpha quarterback who despises every fragile, lying human who ever broke him. I should have run. Instead I looked him in those storm gray eyes and said, "I already paid rent." Now I live under his roof. In the den of six rugby wolves who watch me like fresh prey. In the bed of the boy who feeds me fries in front of the whole school just to make my cheating ex choke... while his hand grips my thigh under the table like he's already decided I'm his to ruin. Fake dating was supposed to be revenge. A game and a way to hurt Jason back. But every staged touch burns. Every forced kiss leaves me aching. Every time Dave pins me against a locker, breath hot on my neck, growling "You don't belong here," my body betrays me wet, trembling, craving the one wolf who swore he'd never claim a human again. Tessan, my best friend since forever, cries in the hallway: "You asked him to fake date you... when you know how much I love him." I thought we were sisters. Now she looks at me like I stole her future. And Dave? He stares at me like I'm the ghost of someone he lost someone whose blood runs in my veins. Someone he couldn't save. In a school ruled by hidden packs and ancient laws, where claiming a human mate can cost an alpha everything, hatred isn't the end. It's the spark. And when the truth rips open about my blood, his past, my best friend's secrets, and the law that binds us falling for the boy who could destroy me might be the only way to survive. But if I let him mark me... neither of us will ever be free again. Enemies, Best friends, Lovers, Rivals. One fake relationship. One unbreakable bond. One war waiting to explode. Welcome to Ridgewood High. Where love is a claim... and betrayal is blood.