Claimed by the Damned Alpha King
All Aveline ever wanted was a mate who would protect and cherish her, someone to take her away from a pack that rejected her the moment they discovered she was wolfless.
Instead, she gets public humiliation when her fated mate, Alpha Desmond, rejects her in front of everyone at her best friend's birthday ceremony. But that betrayal is nothing compared to what comes next: being sold as a bride to the cursed Alpha King—a man whose hatred runs deeper than she could ever imagine.
Alpha King Thorne doesn't just despise weakness. He despises her. The moment he sees her face, he's reminded of the mate who betrayed him, the one who chose death over being his. Now the Moon Goddess has delivered him what feels like a cruel replacement, and he intends to make her pay for crimes she never committed.
Her only purpose? To bear his heir. Nothing more.
Stripped of her title and thrown into the servants' quarters, Aveline discovers that surviving his hatred might be harder than enduring her pack's rejection. But those green doe eyes that mirror his dead mate's hold a vulnerability that's slowly breaking through his iron control, and he hates himself for noticing.
As dark forces emerge wanting to claim what's his, the Alpha King faces an impossible choice: continue punishing her for another woman's sins, or admit that the girl he's determined to break is the only one capable of bringing the most powerful alpha to his knees.
What happens when duty becomes desire, and hatred transforms into something far more dangerous?