Se connecterEmber never meant to make a king. She was just trying to survive her heat without embarrassing herself in front of the massive, infuriatingly calm wolf living in the loft next door. Ember has spent most of her life keeping people at a distance. She’s stubborn, private, and perfectly happy suffering through things alone—including the inconvenient attraction she’s been pretending not to feel toward Ghost. Ghost notices everything. He notices when Ember skips meals. When she hasn’t slept. When she’s pretending she doesn’t need help. Calm, steady, and impossible to shake, he’s the kind of man who doesn’t push—but also doesn’t leave. Which becomes a problem when a violent storm destroys half of Ember’s apartment and Ghost is the one who drags her out of the wreckage. Suddenly the fiercely independent she-wolf who hates relying on anyone is stuck living next door to the one man she’s been trying not to want. Then Ember’s heat hits. What starts as proximity and stubborn attraction turns into something neither of them expected when their bond snaps fully into place—awakening a long-buried bloodline Ember never knew she carried. For generations, wolves like her were known as Kingmakers—rare mates capable of exposing corruption and keeping pack leadership honest. Twenty years ago, someone tried to wipe them out. Now Ember’s power has awakened. And the quiet city she and Ghost call home—long governed by careful politics instead of true pack leadership—is about to change. Because Ghost never wanted to be an Alpha. But Ember’s bloodline has a habit of exposing exactly the kind of wolf who should be. And Ember might have just made a king.
Voir plusGHOSTThe storm outside had turned vicious, wind slamming against the building hard enough to rattle the windows while thunder rolled in deep, layered waves beneath the floorboards. Rain battered the glass in relentless bursts that drowned out the quieter sounds of the apartment. Ember stood in the doorway like someone deciding whether to fight the storm or surrender to it, her body betraying her with every passing minute. Her breathing had grown uneven, and she kept touching her arms in small, restless movements that weren’t meant for him but that Ghost noticed anyway, cataloging each one.Her scent shifted again.Stronger, warmer, the kind of warmth that curled low in his spine and demanded he look away to preserve what little control he had left.He didn’t look away.But he didn’t step closer either.A bolt of lightning flashed across the windows, followed by a thunderclap sharp enough to rattle a picture frame on the far wall. Ember flinched, barely, but enough that Ghost saw her
GHOSTEmber stared into his pantry as if it had personally wronged her, the neat rows of supplies standing in silent judgment of the turmoil she refused to name. She wasn’t rummaging or grabbing anything, just standing there with her shoulders tight and her jaw clenched, breathing a little too fast for someone who claimed she was coping just fine with the storm and everything else the night had dumped on her. Ghost stayed where he was, rooted by the far counter with deliberate distance, not because he didn’t want to be closer, but because the desire to close that gap was already burning too hot, too insistent for comfort. He already knew what she was going to take before her hand even lifted. The same snack she always bought. The one she complained about while eating the entire bag anyway. The one he kept stocked for no reason he could ever admit out loud. She hovered over it, fingers twitching with indecision that had nothing to do with hunger. “…Couch is fine,” she muttered under he
EMBERThunder rolled again outside, distant but heavy, vibrating through the bones of the building. Without light, every sound sharpened: rain battering the windows, wind screaming along the exterior walls, the faint settling groan of stressed beams overhead. And then there was her body, too warm,too awake. The scotch still burned low in her veins, but it wasn’t enough anymore, not with adrenaline spiking, not with fear crawling under her skin, not with Ghost pressed close enough that every point of contact felt magnified. Her skin prickled where he touched her.Not unpleasant.Not at all.Just… intense.The air smelled different now, dust and plaster and something sweet-sharp curling underneath it all. Something that made her stomach tighten and her thighs instinctively draw closer together.Oh. No.Her pulse kicked hard. This wasn’t normal.Her heat wasn’t just circling anymore. It was closing in, fast and insistent, shoved forward by stress and storm and the sheer wrongness of bein
EMBERNot a roll this time, but an explosive crack that shook the apartment hard enough to rattle the lights and punch the breath clean out of her lungs. The floor jolted. Something above them groaned, wood complaining in a language too old to argue with. Ghost moved instantly. He shifted his stance, turning his body without thinking and placing her fully against his chest, one arm braced over her shoulders and the other tight at her waist, shielding her, grounding her, angling himself between her and the ceiling like he could personally negotiate with gravity.Ember felt it then, not the fear but the safety.The way his heart beat steady against her back. The way his weight anchored her like nothing could knock them over as long as he stood there. The way his presence filled every hollow space the storm kept trying to claw into. Her breath hitched.She hated that too.Outside, the storm howled. Inside, held tight against him, Ember felt something give, not the building, not yet, but












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