She came to save her family. She never planned to save a king.
Sera Voss arrives at Dawnfang Hall with three things: a healer’s gift, a rare ability to read the invisible bonds that hold wolf packs together, and twelve weeks to fulfill the terms of a political marriage before she walks away clean. The Alpha King is everything the rumors promised — formidable, controlled, and carrying the weight of a fractured kingdom entirely alone. She tells herself the arrangement is temporary. She tells herself the pull she feels toward him is just the inconvenient proximity of old magic. She tells herself a great many things that stop being true the longer she stays.
Kael Dawnfang didn’t ask for a bride. He asked for an alliance, and what he got was a woman who looks at him without flinching and sees every layer he’s spent years teaching people not to look for. He has enemies inside his own council — a cold, patient Beta building something dangerous in the foundations of his hall — and no one he trusts enough to tell. Until her. Until the woman with the dark eyes and the healer’s hands and the twelve-week timeline starts reading the bonds of his pack and handing him the truth at exactly the size it is.
But the threat Aldric has been building isn’t just political. Buried in the oldest records of the Dawnfang line is a blood rite designed to sever a mate bond before it fully forms — to break a king from the inside out and leave him functional enough to be managed. Sera’s gift is the only thing that can stop it. Her presence is the only thing that makes it possible. And the bond pulling between her and Kael — luminous, deepening, refusing to behave like a political arrangement — is exactly what their enemies intend to use against them.
To survive, they’ll have to trust the one thing neither of them planned for. Each other.
If you love slow-burn paranormal romance with a fiercely capable heroine, an alpha hero who learns to open his heart one guarded inch at a time, and a mate bond that builds from reluctant awareness to something neither of them can live without — this is your next obsession. Dual POV. Steamy. Complete HEA.
One arrangement. One mate bond. Zero chance of walking away.
Grab your copy today and fall into the world of Dawnfang Hall — where old magic runs in the stone and love is the most dangerous thing of all.
