CLAIMED BY THE WOLF KING: a Forbidden Mate Werewolf Romance with Possessive Alpha

She was supposed to marry her betrayer.Princess Elise has one night left as a free woman. Tomorrow, she marries the man who broke her heart in the cruelest way possible, caught in bed with her own best friend. She should hate him. She should hate all of it. The crown. The rules. The life that was never hers to choose.Tonight, she just wants to disappear.Instead, she ends up at the fighting pits, where captured wolves are thrown into the ring to die for entertainment. And when a young wolf is dragged out for slaughter, something in her refuses to look away. She saves him. One reckless act of mercy, and it's about to cost her everything.Because the alpha who owned that wolf is done losing what's his.Kellan Thorne is a King without a crown, fighting to unite fractured wolf clans against the humans who've hunted his kind for generations. He didn't come to the pits for a princess. He came for blood. But the moment he catches her scent, the war in his head goes silent.Mate.He takes her. Drags her north, past the border, into wolf territory where humans don't survive, not because he wants her.Because he needs a weapon.Except the longer she's held in his world, the harder it becomes to remember why she should fight it. Elise starts to see the man beneath the monster. Kellan starts to see the strength beneath the crown. And neither of them expected the bond between them to feel this much like home.But not everyone wants them together.A rival alpha with his own claim to the throne is watching. Waiting. Willing to burn the fragile peace between the clans to ash if it means taking Kellan's power for himself - starting with the human girl standing in his way.With a war coming, a traitor closing in, and a bond neither of them can outrun, Elise has to choose between the life she was born into, or the wolf who claimed her as his own.