On the night of the Blood Moon Hunt, the rule is simple: run or belong to the Alpha.Lyra Vale is a rogue with a target on her back. She is the last survivor of a pack slaughtered by the Red Fang. When the monstrous Kael Draven catches her, the mate bond snaps with a violence that shakes the earth. Kael is a butcher who treats hearts like prey. He doesn't want a mate. He wants a captive. He chains her in his fortress with a brutal ultimatum.Will he finally claim the woman he was born to hate, or will the next Blood Moon be her execution?

When twenty-two-year-old June Vale is sold into marriage by the stepmother who has abused her for years, she believes she's being handed over to a dangerous stranger.Instead, she finds herself standing before Adrian Scott—the country's most powerful billionaire and the one man her stepmother had spent years trying to win for her own daughter.Unknown to June, Adrian isn't buying a wife.He's keeping a promise he made to her dying father.Determined to save her from the people who destroyed her life, Adrian brings June into his world of unimaginable wealth and power. But enemies lurk behind polished smiles, family secrets refuse to stay buried, and the greatest betrayal comes from those they trusted most.As lies, revenge, and deadly conspiracies threaten everything they've built, June must find the strength to stop living as a victim and claim the place she was never meant to lose.Because she wasn't bought to be owned.She was bought to become his queen.