D.C Nightwolf
Publicly discarded on her eighteenth birthday by Alpha Kirill in favor of a political alliance, Bronislava "Slava" Ignatova is left to freeze in the lethal Siberian Blood Forest. Sub-zero death never arrives. Instead, the frost shatters years of wolfsbane poisoning forced upon her by her pack priestess, unleashing a dormant power that reveals Slava as the last true Blood Alpha, an extinct lineage capable of commanding all shifters.
The massive pulse of magic shatters the throne room windows of Tsar Vaelin Volkov, the ruthless Lycan ruler of the Ural Mountains. Searching for a decade for this lost lineage to break an ancient curse binding his blood, Vaelin tracks the flare and rescues Slava. Bringing her to his impenetrable Citadel, he trains her to master her dangerous magic, forging the former outcast into a lethal sovereign while an intense bond deepens between them.
Three years later, North Ridge faces total extinction from organized rogue attacks. Desperate, Kirill journeys to the Imperial Court to beg the Tsar for military aid. Kneeling at the throne, Kirill looks up in horror to find the abandoned girl he cast out now wearing the obsidian crown as Lycan Queen.
Slava grants aid under total submission, but as rogues breach the Citadel, the true mastermind steps forward: the priestess who raised Slava. Revealing she engineered the fake mate bond, murdered Slava's parents, and controlled the rogues, the priestess attempts to wipe out both royal bloodlines. Harnessing her fully awakened Blood Alpha magic, Slava shatters the dark hex, destroys the traitor, breaks Vaelin's curse, and unites the realm under their invincible reign.
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