One week after my husband died, I was forced to marry his brother.My parents sold me to the Blackwood family for ten million dollars, sealing my fate as Adrian Blackwood’s wife. He was an alcoholic who brought other women home and beat me senseless whenever he felt like it. His parents always brushed it off. “Men are polygamous by nature. He’s just teaching you how to be a good wife.”I endured it all in silence.Then Adrian died in an accident, and suddenly I was handed over to the son they’d disowned...Lucian Blackwood. The man I’d only met once. The one they called the devil himself.I barely survived the first Blackwood brother. I’m not sure I’ll survive the second.

When her pack was wiped out, they kept her alive as a warning. For years she scrubbed their floors, took their fists, and swallowed every insult while her wolf stayed locked behind the pain. They called her cursed blood. They were right. On the night of the blood moon, something ancient finally breaks free. The shift that rips through her is nothing the packs have seen in centuries, raw, sovereign, and impossible to control. Overnight she becomes the thing every alpha fears: the last of a bloodline strong enough to unmake them all. Hunted across territories and bleeding from wounds that refuse to close, she crosses into the land of the Alpha King. He is everything the stories claim, ruthless, powerful, and used to taking what he wants. He should kill her on sight. Instead he claims her. Now the packs that once owned her will stop at nothing to put her back in chains or in the ground. And the only man strong enough to stand beside her may be the one who decides whether she becomes queen… or the greatest threat he has ever faced.

On what was supposed to be the happiest day of her sister’s life, Aria Monroe is forced into a nightmare she never saw coming. The bride is gone. The guests are waiting. And her family gives her only one choice— take her sister’s place… or destroy them all. Left with no escape, Aria walks down the aisle and marries Adrian Blackwood, a dangerously powerful billionaire known for his cold heart and ruthless reputation. But secrets don’t stay hidden forever. When Adrian discovers he’s been deceived, Aria expects anger… divorce… punishment. Instead, he gives her something far worse. > “You wanted to be my wife so badly? Then stay. And suffer the consequences.” Trapped in a marriage built on lies, Aria refuses to break under his control. But the more she resists, the more Adrian becomes obsessed with the woman who was never meant to be his bride. Just when their dangerous connection begins to blur the lines between hatred and desire… the real bride returns. And she wants her place back. But Aria is no longer the weak substitute. And this time— she’s not leaving without a fight.