BLOOMIE
On the night her pack's alpha publicly rejects her for another woman, Seraphina Vale expects humiliation. She doesn't expect a death sentence. Stripped of her mate bond and left without protection, Sera watches Kael Draven name Isolde Kane his true Luna in front of the entire pack, and within hours, Isolde has convinced Blackthorn's elders that a rejected mate with no rank and no defender is nothing but a liability. Bound and dragged into the forest to be killed on her own alpha's order, Sera expects that to be the end of her story. Instead, a stranger cuts down her executioners without hesitation and claims her before she can say a single word in protest. Lucian Voss, alpha of a rival family, offers her a choice that barely qualifies as one: sign a binding marriage contract before sunrise, or die anyway, just on someone else's terms. She signs. But survival is only the beginning. Inside the walled and guarded world of the Voss estate, Sera finds a husband who knew about a bloodline buried inside her long before he ever laid eyes on her, and who won't say why. She finds a household watching her every move, deciding whether she's an asset worth protecting or a threat worth removing. And she finds, rising in her own blood, a power she never asked for: eyes that turn silver, frost that spreads from her hands, a strength that kills before she's decided to use it. When Blackthorn Pack lays siege to the estate to take her back, and Kael himself walks through the wreckage still refusing to let her go, Sera will have to decide, once and for all, who gets to claim her, and whether she'll let anyone claim her at all.
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