Ankie Diamond

Divia has spent her entire life being treated as worthless. Born a weak, Resonance-null Omega, she is sold by her own family for two hundred and fifty coins and sent away without a second glance. She expects a life of silence and service. She does not expect to collide with Alpha Kael of the Ashcombe pack...or to feel her long-silent wolf scream to life the moment he touches her. Kael is running out of time. Bound by his father’s final decree, he must take a mate before the next moonrise or lose his title to his ambitious cousin, Callan. When an unexpected bond flares between him and the quiet Omega who was never meant to matter, Kael makes a cold decision. He will marry her. Not out of love. Not out of choice. But because a bonded mate cannot be refused. To the pack, Divia is nothing more than a necessity...an unwanted bride bought to secure a title. Kael treats her with the same distance, reminding her at every turn that she is only a name on a record. But the bond between them refuses to stay quiet, and the longer Divia remains at his side, the more difficult it becomes for either of them to ignore. When the pack healer uncovers a secret buried in Divia’s blood—a rare and nearly extinct Resonant lineage thought lost for generations...everything changes. What Kael believed was a simple political marriage becomes something far more dangerous. There are those who would kill to control such power… and others who would kill to erase it. As enemies close in and betrayal surfaces from within his own walls, Kael is forced to confront a truth he never wanted: the Omega he claimed out of desperation may be the only one who can strengthen his pack...or destroy everything he has left. And Divia must decide whether she will remain the girl everyone looked down on… or rise into the power that was hidden from her all along. In a world where bloodlines decide fate and loyalty is a weapon, an unwanted bond may become the most dangerous claim of all.