She didn’t come willingly. She isn’t staying quietly. And the covenant doesn’t care about either.
Selene Adara spent five years building a life outside the pack system — a real one, entirely her own. Then three men in expensive coats walked into her antique shop, and everything she’d built became the reason she couldn’t refuse. The Vorne Covenant has selected her as the Lycan King’s sanctified mate. The sixty-day window is already running. And her sister is living inside the wards that will collapse if Selene doesn’t comply.
Calix Vorne never wanted to be king. He inherited the crown, the covenant, and the catastrophic political situation that came with it — including an enemy who has been quietly dismantling the supernatural world’s foundational architecture for years, and a called mate who has every reason in the world not to trust anyone who carries his family’s name.
His brother rejected her. Publicly, deliberately, in front of an entire pack. Calix was there and didn’t stop it, and he has lived in that choice ever since.
He tells her the truth about that in his letter. He tells her the truth about everything. He suspects she’ll see through anything that isn’t honest within about ten minutes of meeting him, and he’s right.
What neither of them expects: that the artifacts Selene has been quietly collecting for five years are the key to an enemy’s forty-year plan. That the covenant’s magic runs deeper than either of them understood. That the woman who arrived in his compound with every door locked and a deliberate strategy to keep it that way will — room by room, morning by morning, one cup of hot coffee at a time — stop finding reasons to keep the doors closed.
This is a full-length slow-burn paranormal romance set in a modern Scotland with ancient supernatural architecture, a heroine whose five years outside the pack system made her more capable than anyone inside it anticipated, and a king who has been governing everything except the thing he actually wants. Dual POV. High heat. Fully on-page consummation. Guaranteed HEA.
If you love paranormal romance where the heroine walks in with her guard up and the hero earns every single inch of the way down — this one is for you.
