K. C. G creation
Briony Thistlewood was never supposed to be a bride. She was the spare, the plump, plain daughter kept in the healing house while her sister Marisol was groomed to marry the most feared Alpha in the north. But when Marisol vanishes the night before the mating ceremony, the pack elders don't cancel the wedding. They dress Briony in her sister's stolen gown and hand her to Alpha Kieran Ashgrave before he even sees her face, the bite already given, the bond already sealed.
Kieran didn't ask for a mate. He wanted a treaty honored and an heir, nothing more. And the woman underneath the veil, soft where his enemies are hard, is proof to him that he's been cheated. He makes his contempt clear: she's a breeder, not a mate, and she'll learn her place.
But the moon doesn't ask permission. The more Kieran tries to freeze her out, the more his wolf refuses to let her go and the more the pack starts whispering about a bloodline they thought was dead: the Anchor-born, said to be strong enough to end wars. When Blackfen Pack comes hunting for exactly that power, Kieran has to decide if he can undo every cruel word before he loses the mate he never let himself want.
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