Darya Summer

**Aila was never meant to be queen.** She was never meant to be anything more than a cup-holder beside her gorgeous sister, Akila. But when Akila refuses to marry the Mad King, Aila must take her place—by committing the most forbidden act in the kingdom. A soul-switching spell. It was supposed to last three months. Three months, and she’d be free. But Akila tricked her, and now, Aila is trapped. Trapped in her sister’s body. Trapped in a kingdom that despises her. Trapped in a marriage to a man who never wanted a bride. But nothing is more terrifying than the Mad King, her husband himself. King Ahsan—the faceless beast, cruel, unreadable, and dangerously sharp. The man the world fears. The man whose black eyes haven’t left her since the moment she arrived. Now Aila must hide her secret, navigate the deadly palace, and survive the cold, ruthless king she calls her husband. But what exactly is Ahsan? A monster, as they say? Or something far worse—a broken man, cursed and craving something he cannot name? Something she was never meant to give. Find out. --- This is a slow burn romance, tension-filled romance, with lots of yearning, stolen glances and emotional devastation. Grab your popcorn, your drinks, and a load of napkins and watch how the mighty King falls on his knees yearning for his beloved. And welcome to my page, where I write broken but strong men, doing nothing except being utterly in love with their women.

“I, Damon Donovan, Alpha of the RedMoon pack, together with the Crescent City pack, reject you, Nerissa Grey, as their mate.” Nerissa Grey, once a princess of a great kingdom, was rejected by her mate the same night she was killed by him. Offered another chance by the moon goddess, she has three hours to save herself from a crueler death at her husband's hands. But there's a condition: she must find the wicked and deadly Alpha king and offer herself to him for salvation. Nikolai Marino, the Alpha king known to never offer help without demanding something in return, has had his eyes on Nerissa for a long time. He offers her help, but only if she agrees to rule alongside him and exact revenge on everyone who has wronged them. It’s a tough choice for Nerissa. Her people, her mate, and everyone she cares about belong to the pack she’s now part of. And the Alpha king is known to be very cruel. She doesn’t want to go with him. “Every year I’ve come to this dumb party that your husband throws just to see you, because I wanted you close to me. I wanted you to speak to me,” the Alpha king said, his eyes raking over me lustfully.