You were born to be a Queen, yet you’ve spent twenty years praying for the silence of a grave. You know the hollow ache of being treated like a "vessel"—a healer whose only value is the starlight others can steal from your veins. You’ve mastered the art of survival in the Blackthorn Pits, keeping your heart as cold as the stone walls around you. But now, a secret pregnancy is thrumming against your spine, and the man who put it there is the Rival Alpha King you were destined to destroy. If you stay silent, your child will be born in chains, a trophy for a king who feeds on shadows. The cost of your hesitation is the extinction of the fated-mate bond and the death of the lunar line. Stop playing the victim in a story where you hold the fire. The King thinks he’s captured a broken bird, but he’s about to realize he’s invited the sun into a house of straw. Dive into a world where "property" becomes power, and a stolen heir reclaims a kingdom. This is a high-heat, standalone shifter romance with a guaranteed HEA and no cliffhangers.
