The Wolf King’s Wife: A Dark Paranormal Romance

She rejected the Wolf King in front of his entire kingdom. Then he married her anyway.Elara Thorne has spent her life avoiding the northern packs and the ancient blood politics that destroyed her family.Then she meets Ronan Veyr.The Wolf King.Powerful. Ruthless. Feared.And supposedly her fated mate.Northern law gives Elara one chance to reject the bond.So she does.Publicly.Ronan accepts.But when an old political agreement surfaces, Elara discovers rejecting the Wolf King does not mean she gets to leave him.It means she must marry him without the protection of fate.Then the bond refuses to die.The mark on Elara's wrist changes.Ronan's blood begins reacting to hers.And hidden beneath his castle are records proving something impossible: Their mate bond was manufactured.Someone has been engineering bloodlines for generations.Someone poisoned the Veyr heirs.Someone needs Elara's forgotten White Moon blood.And the child she and Ronan could create may carry a claim powerful enough to control every major pack in the north.But there is one problem nobody planned for.Elara destroys the bond.And when the magic disappears, she still wants him.Ronan still wants her.No fate.No prophecy.No magical compulsion.Just choice.Now an enemy believed dead is gathering the northern packs, an ancient bloodmage is preparing a ritual capable of enslaving them all, and Elara may be the only person capable of breaking every bond they ever created.The moon never chose the Wolf King and his wife. They chose each other.A dark, high-heat paranormal fantasy romance featuring a rejected mate, wolf-shifter king, arranged marriage, enemies-to-lovers tension, political intrigue, forced proximity, blood magic, a fiercely independent heroine and a possessive king who learns that love and ownership are not the same thing.