Lydiatony
Darkness doesn't only exist in the shadows. Sometimes, it's built into the people meant to protect you.
Mara Clifton has spent her entire life as a pawn in her family's ruthless ambitions. Her future was never hers to choose, and neither was the husband they forced upon her.
As punishment for a betrayal she never committed, Mara is ordered to marry Alpha King Alkane Viktor, the very man her family once publicly rejected and humiliated before he rose to power. To her father, the marriage is the perfect opportunity to plant a spy inside the king's palace. To Alkane, it's the perfect chance to destroy the family that once called him unworthy.
Their marriage begins as a battlefield.
He strips her family of everything they hold dear. She is expected to betray the man she now shares a bed with. Every smile hides a scheme. Every touch conceals another act of revenge.
But the deeper Mara is pulled into the Alpha King's world, the more dangerous the truth becomes. The monster she was sent to ruin may not be the real enemy, while the family she has always obeyed is willing to sacrifice her without a second thought.
Caught between a husband consumed by revenge and a father hungry for power, Mara must decide where her loyalty truly belongs... before revenge destroys them both.
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