To save her village from annihilation, Elara offers herself as the ultimate peace offering: a bride for the brutal, legendary Alpha, Kael. He is a storm of muscle, power, and ancient fury, a ruler who commands the midnight forests with an iron will. Their marriage is a transaction sealed in blood and silver, a political ploy to unite two warring worlds. But Kael didn’t bargain for her fire. Elara may wear his mark and the exquisite, constricting silks of his queen, but her spirit remains defiantly, dangerously human. Within the gilded cage of his stone fortress, a different kind of war ignites—a battle of whispered taunts, searing glances, and a tension so thick it threatens to choke the very air. As a treacherous plot to dismantle the fragile peace surfaces from within Kael’s own pack, the line between enemy and ally blurs. The cold, calculated Alpha finds himself fiercely protective of the wife he never wanted. And Elara discovers a terrifying, intoxicating heat awakening in her veins—a primal call that mirrors the wolf’s haunting howl. Bound by a vow she never chose, she must now decide: break the chains of a forced marriage, or embrace the savage, all-consuming passion of the bond… before the traitor in their midst claims both their throne and their lives.