V. Omoruyi
The Heir's Coma, the Betrayal, and the Surrogate He Never Saw
For three years, Elira Montrose gave everything to the man she loved, believing loyalty would one day be repaid with a future. On the night she finally planned to run away with him, she found him in bed with her own stepsister.
Worse than the betrayal was what came after: he had already arranged to have her sent away. A gold-embossed letter names her a candidate for the Larkspur Pack's surrogacy selection, an extraordinary contingency plan to secure an heir for the Alpha who has lain in a mysterious coma for six months. Rumors say the women who get close to him don't survive it. Elira has nowhere left to run, and no wolf of her own to protect her.
But Alpha Rurik Larkspur isn't as lost as everyone believes. Poisoned by his own uncle and trapped in his body by dark silver toxin, he has been awake in his mind for months, watching everyone who enters his chamber, waiting for the traitor to slip. Then a wolfless, unremarkable girl walks past his door, and for the first time since the poison took him, his heart begins to race.
She shouldn't be able to reach him at all. She does anyway.
As Elira is drawn deeper into the Larkspur estate, into Rurik's chamber, and into a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of his Council, she'll have to decide how far she's willing to go for a man who can't even open his eyes; and Rurik will have to decide whether the girl who woke him is the key to his throne, or the reason he's willing to lose it.
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