I stood frozen by the bedroom door, hands trembling, my heart racing like it could burst.“Lucas… this is our room,” I said softly, trying to sound calm.He looked up from his tie, his expression unreadable. “Our room?” he repeated, like he was testing me.“Yes… we’re married now,” I whispered, swallowing the lump in my throat.He let out a short, humorless laugh that made my chest ache.“Don’t confuse a contract with a marriage, Ava,” he said coldly, his voice cutting straight through me.I felt my knees weaken. “But your grandfather…”“My grandfather forced this,” he interrupted sharply. “That doesn’t mean I have to treat you like my wife.”He walked past me, each step echoing like a verdict.“Where are you going?” I asked, my voice trembling.“To my room,” he said casually, not even looking at me.I froze. “You… have another room?”He paused, his shadow falling across the floor. “I have many rooms in this house,” he said, his voice low, almost dangerous.“And none of them include you.”I wanted to scream, I wanted to cry, I wanted to reach for him but I couldn’t.All I could do was stand there, feeling smaller than I had ever felt in my entire life.The crown is heavy, but the marriage is lethal.Ava was a ghost in her own life until Nicholas Carter resurrected her with a golden hand. But billionaire charity is never free. The price? A wedding ring and a man who despises the very air she breathes.Lucas Carter returned for his inheritance, not a bride. Now, he’s bound by a dead man’s decree to a woman he considers a gold-digging interloper. They are the world's most envied couple by day, and cold-blooded strangers by night.But Nicholas’s will was a trap, not a gift. As the shadows of the Carter empire begin to bleed into their reality, Lucas realizes his biggest threat isn't the enemies at the gate, it’s the wife who is slowly becoming his only obsession.

“You want peace? Then give her to me.” The words brought silence crashing down. Her? Ellie? The cursed girl? The murderer? Twelve years ago, Ellie served tea to her parents, and watched them die. Branded a killer by the only family she had left, stripped of her wolf, and silenced into servitude, she became nothing more than a shadow in the home that once cherished her. Now, her brother Wesley rules as Alpha of the Moonshade Pack—respected, feared, and unchallenged. When the dreaded Crimson Fang Pack demands peace, their Alpha, the cold and enigmatic Jovani, asks for just one thing in return: Ellie. To Moonshade, it’s a blessing. A burden lifted. A stain finally erased. But Jovani sees what no one else has dared to—power. Hidden, buried and waiting. In his lands, far from the lies that bound her, Ellie’s memories awaken. Her wolf stirs and something ancient and dangerous rises within her. She will return. Not as prey. Not as a servant. But as the Alpha fate tried to silence.

“Don’t touch me!” Chloe snapped, her voice trembling, not with weakness, but with the force of everything she’d lost.“I’m not trying to fix you,” Marcus said quietly. In the frozen wilds of the north, where wolves fight for every breath and survival is earned in blood, Chloe loses everything in one brutal night. Her pack is slaughtered. Her parents, gone. She’s left with nothing but twenty shattered survivors and a rare silver wolf within her, Chloe is taken in by the Dark Woods Pack where she plans to stay invisible, train hard, and one day take vengeance. She never expected Marcus. Powerful, magnetic, and every bit the Alpha, Marcus sees beyond Chloe’s grief. He doesn’t chase her for her rare bloodline, but he fights for her heart. Slowly, patiently, he earns her trust. And as sparks fly and the bond between them deepens, Chloe begins to rediscover who she is, not just a survivor, not just a Luna marked by prophecy, but a warrior forging her own path. But just as healing begins, a captured rogue reveals a chilling truth: someone from Chloe’s own pack betrayed them. As secrets unravel and old wounds reopen, Chloe is thrown into a dangerous game of lies, politics, and buried sins. With Marcus by her side and enemies lurking within, Chloe must decide who she can trust… and how far she’s willing to go to uncover the truth. Because the traitor isn’t just still alive, they’re closer than she thinks and they’re not done yet.