Jasmine
She was supposed to belong to another Alpha. Instead, the most dangerous man in the underworld claimed her beneath the Blood Moon.
Elyssia Bellrose has everything a woman could want—wealth, status, and the name of one of the Seven Founding Families. Everything, except a wolf.
Born wolfless and condemned by an ancient prophecy, Elyssia has until her twenty-third birthday to find her mate… or die.
When her family arranges a sacred bond with Alpha Darian Veymont, Elyssia agrees for one reason best known to her.
But just as the ceremony begins, a voice cuts through the sacred hall.
“I object!”
Killian Blackthorne—the Devil of the Black Crescent. A ruthless Mafia Alpha with a dangerous reputation, a merciless heart, and a wolf that has never bowed to anyone.
He isn’t there to save her. He’s there to settle a score with her family.
But when Elyssia calls him her lover to escape a fate she never wanted, his wolf awakens with a terrifying need to claim her, and he does the unthinkable—a forbidden claim on Elyssia at her mating ceremony, in front of everyone, using it as a way of getting his revenge on the Bellroses and the Veymonts.
One impulsive mark binds her to a man who despises weakness—and believes a wolfless woman could never be worthy of him.
Now she’s trapped with a man who believes a wolfless woman could never be his equal—and who seems determined to keep her close even as he denies wanting her.
But something about Elysia awakens a darkness inside him that even he doesn’t understand.
And when her twenty third birthday approaches, the truth may be far more terrifying than either of them imagined.
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