Claimed by the cruel lycan king
Elena Reyes never mattered to anyone — until her father sold her freedom to settle a debt with the most feared Lycan King alive. Kade Voss wanted a contract, not a mate. But the human bride he expected to break instead keeps standing back up, and something in his cold chest starts paying attention.
As Elena learns to survive a court that sees her as disposable, an old enemy — Rurik of the Ashford pack, whose compound Kade destroyed years earlier — senses an opening. He begins testing Kade's defenses through Elena, betting that the King's silence means she isn't worth a war.
He's wrong.
As threats against Elena escalate and Kade's guarded control starts to crack, the two of them are forced closer together — through danger, through buried truths about the night Kade's father was murdered, and through a public claiming that turns a business arrangement into something neither of them can walk back. But when the full truth of the original contract resurfaces, and Rurik makes his final move, Elena will have to choose: run from the crown that claimed her, or fight to keep the King who finally chose her back.