The last thing Nora Kane expected at her sister's funeral was a marriage proposal.Not from a stranger. Not from him — Damien Voss, the man whose name made senators go quiet and whose smile never once reached his eyes.She needed protection. He needed a wife who wouldn't ask questions. The arrangement was simple: six months, a ring, and the pretense of love in front of his enemies. She would be safe. He would be untouchable.But Nora is still bleeding from a grief she hasn't named out loud, and Damien carries silences so heavy they fill every room he walks into. Two broken people living a lie — except some nights, when the house goes still and he sits with her in the dark without saying a word, it doesn't feel like pretending at all.She knows what he is. She knows what this is.So why does losing him feel like something she can't survive again?

He rejected her in front of the entire pack… calling her “worthless” and “unworthy of a true Alpha.”She thought that was the end of her story.But the night she was cast out, her blood awakened something forbidden—something even the Alpha King was never meant to discover.Because she wasn’t just any wolf…She was the last surviving heir of a forgotten royal bloodline—one powerful enough to destroy or rule every pack in existence.And now the same Alpha who rejected her… is hunting her.Not to kill her.But to claim her.Before the truth about her power changes everything.

On the night of her mating ceremony, Alpha Damon publicly rejects her before the entire pack and chooses her beautiful stepsister instead.Humiliated and heartbroken, Ava leaves the pack with nothing but the clothes on her back.But fate isn't finished with her.After being attacked in the forbidden forest, she is saved by the most feared man in the werewolf world—the Lycan King.The same king who shocks everyone by declaring:"She belongs to me."Now the Alpha who rejected her wants her back.Her stepsister wants her dead.And a dangerous secret hidden in Ava's blood could change the werewolf world forever.When the truth is revealed, who will kneel first—the Alpha who broke her heart or the King who refuses to let her go?