The Wrong Brother's Bite
He was never supposed to be the King. And he was definitely never supposed to be her mate.
Lamia Blackmoor is ready to become the Luna of the powerful Jasperfang Pack. She has her life perfectly mapped out for the Blood Moon Celebration. But five days before the sacred ceremony, her royal fiancé Rham shatters the alliance. He breaks the pack laws and flees into the rogue territory with a low-rank wolf, leaving Lamia facing ultimate public shame before the entire Grand Wolf Assembly.
Enter Clay Jasperfang.
Clay is the rogue second prince—the pack’s charming, dangerous wild child who spends his time drinking moon-wine and breaking every rule in the territory. Built like a towering wall of hard muscle, he carries a lethal aura and a reputation for breaking hearts across the Silvercrest Territory. But with King Aldric dying, the Silverclaw Throne needs an immediate heir, and Lamia needs to save her family from total social ruin.
To protect his brother and shield the woman he has secretly craved for winters, Clay steps out of the shadows and offers a scandalous trick: Marry me instead.
To fool the pack elders, they must spin a wild tale of a fierce brotherly battle over the most beautiful future Luna in the Moonshadow Dominion. But inside the Alpha’s den, the tension is raw. Lamia is terrified of laying bare her vulnerabilities to the most magnetic, unpredictable predator she knows. And Clay is done playing games. He demands an eternal moonmark and a true mate bond—in every single way.
Can a marriage born of desperation survive the heat of a real wolf's hunger, or will the weight of the throne crush them both?