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For ten years, Aria Voss has worn grief like armor. She was fifteen when Alpha Kade Thorne's men dragged her father into the pack square and executed him as a traitor. She's spent every year since sharpening herself into a weapon learning poisons, learning patience, waiting for the day the Thorne pack would kneel to a peace treaty and hand her the one thing she's wanted more than survival: proximity to her father's killer.
That day comes sooner than she expects. The war-weary Alpha Council brokers peace between the Voss and Thorne packs, sealed the old way through marriage. Aria is given to Kade Thorne as his bride.
She smiles through the wedding. She kisses him at the altar. She plans to have him dead by morning.
Then his wolf recognizes her, and hers answers. Mate. The bond slams into place before she can stop it, and the poison stays hidden in her sleeve.
Worse follows. When Aria digs for proof of Kade's guilt, she finds none, only evidence that the massacre was orchestrated by someone inside her own pack, someone who benefited from both sides bleeding. Someone who still sits at her family's table.
Now Aria is trapped in a marriage built on a lie she can't unravel without exposing herself, bonded to a mate she was raised to hate, and closer than ever to the uncle who murdered her father and let an innocent man take the blame. Kade is hunting the same conspiracy from his side, unaware his bride is the daughter of the man he's been falsely blamed for killing.
Every tender look between them is a performance for two watching packs, until the fated bond makes it unbearably real, and the truth threatens to burn down the marriage, and both of them with it.
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