Moon-Marked Obsession: Scars Of The Savage King

They call him the Savage King of the North for a reason.

Bane of the Iron Ridge is a monster wrapped in the skin of a God. Scarred, feral, and ruthlessly powerful, he rules the frozen wastes with a fist of iron and a heart of ice. Years ago, he was promised a Queen—Elora, the ethereal princess of the Dawn Pack. But when a bloody coup decimated her lineage, Elora didn’t stay to fight by his side. She vanished, leaving Bane to face the slaughter alone.

He spent years nursing his hatred. Now, he’s found her.

Elora isn't a princess anymore. She’s a ghost, hiding in the neon-lit filth of a human underground club, dancing for the gazes of lesser men. When Bane finds her, he doesn't offer a rescue; he offers a cage. He believes she abandoned him. He believes she is a traitor. He drags her back to his mountain fortress, intent on breaking her spirit the way she broke his trust.

"You ran from a King, Elora. Now, you belong to a Beast."

In the claustrophobic heat of his castle, the "punishment" Bane planned turns into a dark, erotic obsession. He wants to ruin her, but the closer he gets, the more he realizes Elora is a shell of the girl he once knew. She is cold, distant, and seemingly dead inside.

The turning point comes in the dead of night, when Bane strips away her silk robes to claim her by force—only to stop dead at the sight of her back. It isn't smooth skin that greets him, but a roadmap of agony: whip marks, brandings, and the jagged scars of men who hunted her while he was busy hating her.

The realization shatters him. Elora didn’t run to save herself; she ran to lead the killers away from him.

The hunt is no longer about revenge. It’s about blood.

Bane’s protective streak turns lethal. He will no longer just be her captor; he will be her executioner. But Elora’s heart is a fortress even his claws can’t breach, and the men who scarred her are still coming to finish the job.

As the Northern Council plots to remove a "tainted" Queen, Bane must decide: Will he follow the laws of his ancestors, or will he burn his entire council alive to keep the woman who sacrificed everything for him?

The snow will turn red before he lets her go again. But as Elora’s enemies close in, a dark secret from her time in hiding threatens to destroy them both before he can even beg for her forgiveness.

Who gave her those scars? Bane is about to find out... and God help anyone who stands in his way.