
Caged by the Wolf KingShe was born with nothing. He rules with everything.
Elara has no wolf. No rank. No voice. For five years, her own pack has beaten her, branded her, and fed her scraps like a stray. Her blood runs black—the mark of a Null, a creature the Moon Goddess rejected. Her uncle, the Alpha, cut her throat so she couldn't scream. Her only crime: existing.
When he exiles her naked into a blizzard, she crawls into a hollow log to die.
That is where Kaelen Blackthorn finds her.
The Alpha of the Nightshade Dominion is the most feared predator in three centuries. Cold. Arrogant. Merciless. He has torn apart nine packs and never knelt for anyone. But the moment his burning red eyes land on her broken body, his wolf speaks a word he has never spoken before:
Mine.
He takes her to his fortress. Heals her. Trains her. Claims her as his fated mate. He promises to burn her enemies to ash. But Kaelen does not know the truth Elara carries in her black blood.
A Null is not empty.
A Null is a vessel.
Twenty-two years of pain, cruelty, and stolen magic sleep inside her. When she finally learns to wake that power, even the Wolf King will learn a hard lesson:
He didn't rescue a victim.
He sharpened a blade.
And blades, eventually, cut the hand that holds them.