She was rejected, broken, and sent to die. He was the monster they warned her about.
Kaia Draven knows what it means to be unwanted. As a half-blood wolf who can't shift, she's spent her life as an outcast—mocked, abused, and invisible. When her Alpha betrays her, drugging and binding her like cargo, she's delivered to the one place no woman returns from alive: Highmoor Keep, stronghold of the feared Grim Alpha.
Prince Rylan Vale doesn't do mercy. Scarred by war and hardened by duty, he's the King's most ruthless weapon—a man who buried his heart beneath blood and steel. The last thing he needs is a fragile half-blood bride thrust into his world as a political pawn.
But Kaia isn't fragile. And she sure as hell isn't his.
Their first encounter is a battle of wills. Every clash ignites something dangerous between them—something raw, magnetic, and impossible to ignore. As Rylan's icy control begins to crack, he discovers the woman sent to him as a sacrifice is hiding a power that could shatter kingdoms: an ancient, forbidden magic that makes her both a weapon and a target.
Kaia never wanted to be claimed. But as enemies close in and a deadly conspiracy unravels, she realizes the grumpy, impossibly infuriating alpha might be the only one who sees her as more than a monster or a mistake. He sees her as his.
Now they face an impossible choice: submit to a fate written in blood and betrayal—or defy the crown, break every rule, and claim a love fierce enough to rewrite destiny itself.
In a world where rejection is a death sentence, can two broken souls forge a bond strong enough to survive?
Read now to discover the addictive, heart-pounding romance readers are calling "utterly addictive."
