“I can’t accept this marriage contract.” I pushed the papers across the table and walked toward the door. “Maya, Stop.” He brought out Two files… “The ball is in your court,” Lucian Vale said calmly. “I’m not going to force you to become my wife. But what’s inside those files might.” I turned and stared at him. My fingers tightened around the first file as I opened it. My body couldn’t move from its position for a while. God! I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. “What did you do?” Lucian’s expression didn’t change… “I gave you a choice.” “Listen Mr Lucian…You have no right to push me around. You don’t own my life.” “No,” he said quietly. “But you’ll come back.” I scoffed. “Over my dead body!!”. “You’ll come back on your knees crying for it Maya.” I slammed the door behind me. I wish I had never looked inside those files because when I got home, reality hit harder than anything Lucian could have said. My grandmother needed medication. My daughter needed protection. Bills were piling up. My own body was quietly betraying me. And somewhere in the back of my mind was the terrifying feeling that someone had been watching us. For years, I had survived without anyone. I wasn’t about to let a cold billionaire buy my life. But Lucian Vale had just placed something on that table that could change everything. I fear accepting his contract marriage would force me into the middle of a family built on blood, betrayal, and secrets. Because the man I was supposed to pretend to love was hiding a truth that could destroy us both. And the biggest secret wasn’t Lucian’s. It was mine.

She married the Alpha King. He may have destroyed her childhood. For five years, Lyra Vale was the Luna no one believed in: the fragile, half-marked mate of the most ruthless Alpha King in wolf history. Kael Blackthorne chose her anyway. He shielded her from the court’s cruelty and made her feel safe.Then he changed.Colder. Crueler. Absent. And now he’s announcing a new bride: her own half-sister, Imelda.Lyra could survive losing her husband. But then she finds a piece of clothing hidden in his room, the exact garment worn by the man who shattered her childhood. The man whose face she never saw.Was her mate the monster all along?As Kael exposes the secret she’s hidden for years, that she is the daughter of the greatest traitor her people ever knew, the palace turns on her. The Luna becomes a pariah overnight.But Lyra’s problems are only beginning. A boy has appeared in the palace. He is ten years old, the same age her stolen baby would be, and he is inexplicably drawn to her. Every record about him has been altered. Someone is lying.And something is awakening inside Lyra. Her senses sharpen. Wolves fall silent when she’s angry. Wounds close before her eyes. The girl everyone called weak was never weak. She was suppressed.With a divorce staged on paper, a cousin who may be an ally, and a husband who may be her enemy or her only hope, Lyra must unravel a conspiracy of buried bloodlines, forged betrayals, and a stolen child before the people who rewrote her story finish erasing her.Because the truth is far worse than a cheating husband.And the traitor’s daughter is about to come home.