She was bleeding out at his border. He was the last wolf who should want her.
Sera Blackwood crossed into Alpha King territory with a silver arrow in her side and a murder charge on her head. The mate bond hit the moment Kael Thornwood found her-devastating, undeniable, and absolutely impossible. He’s the ruthless king who swore never to accept a mate after watching his father’s bond destroy everything. She’s the accused killer whose duty demands he be executed.
But Sera didn’t murder anyone. She witnessed a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of pack leadership, and the wolves behind it will do anything to silence her. Now the Alpha King must choose between the oath that made him and the bond that could break him. Because Sera isn’t just his fated mate-she’s the key to exposing a plot that threatens every pack in North America.
A rejected mate who refuses to stay unwanted. An obsessive ruler learning love isn’t weakness. Dangerous pack secrets that could destroy them both.
Kael spent eight years building walls around his heart, terrified of becoming the monster his father was. Sera spent three weeks running from wolves who wanted her dead for knowing too much. When the mate bond forces them together, every instinct screams this will end in blood and madness-just like his parents’ bond did.
Unless they’re brave enough to choose differently.
She’s a warrior framed for murder. He’s a king bound by law. Together, they’ll have to trust the bond they’re both fighting, expose a conspiracy built on lies, and prove that fated mates aren’t a curse-they’re the alliance’s only hope for survival.
Because some bonds are worth the risk. Some love is worth the fight. And this rejected mate refuses to stay unwanted.
For readers who crave fated mates forced to work together, protective Alpha heroes who fall hard, kick-ass heroines earning their place, and shifter romance with political intrigue that’ll keep you up past midnight. Features steamy scenes, a HEA, and an Alpha King learning his greatest strength is the mate he tried to resist.
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