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The Alpha King’s Condemned Mate
You murdered your mate on your mating night. Give me one reason I shouldn't execute you where you stand.
Because you want the truth more than you want my death.
Lyra Ashwood was supposed to be celebrating the most sacred night of her life her mating ceremony to Damon Blackwood, the powerful Alpha who had chosen her over every eligible shewolf in the Shadow Vale Pack. Instead, she drove a silver blade through his heart.
Not because she didn't love him. But because loving him would have cost her sister's life.
They told her it was simple: kill Damon before the mating bond completed, or watch her younger sister burn at dawn, accused of treason by Damon's own family. Lyra chose the only choice love would allow.
Now she's a prisoner of Kael Thornheart, the legendary Alpha King whose reputation makes strong wolves whimper. Ruthless. Merciless. Carved from violence and trauma. He rules the werewolf territories with absolute power, and he wants two things from Lyra: the truth about why she committed the ultimate sin against pack law, and something far more dangerous her complete surrender.
Kael should execute her. The law demands it. His council expects it. But the moment he locks eyes with her in the dungeons of his Citadel, something impossible happens. The mating bond the sacred connection that should have died with Damon flares to life between them.
Fate has marked her as his true mate. The wolfgods have chosen. But Lyra has sworn never to trust another Alpha, never to let another man's power control her destiny.
And Kael? He's spent ten years building walls around his heart after the mate bond destroyed his family. He doesn't want a mate. He wants answers. He wants justice.
He wants her anyway.
As Lyra is forced into proximity with the Alpha King in his frozen fortress, deadly truths begin to surface. Damon's death wasn't the tragedy it appeared. Her sister's accusation was part of a larger conspiracy that threatens every pack in the territories. And someone very close to Kael orchestrated everything including making sure Lyra and Kael would meet.
Now Lyra must choose: cling to her vow never to submit to an Alpha's power, or trust the one man dangerous enough to either save her or destroy her completely.
Because the people who framed her sister and manipulated her into murder are coming to finish what they started. And they're betting that Lyra's broken heart will keep her from seeing the truth:
Sometimes the cruellest cage is the one you build yourself. And sometimes the monster everyone fears is the only one who can set you free.
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