Esthera

To save her five-year-old son from a deadly magic decay known as Aura Starvation, Evie risks everything to sneak across the heavily guarded border of Silver Peak. Her target: a rare, high-altitude flower that grows only on royal land. But when border guards capture her, Evie is thrown into the subterranean dungeons of the terrifying Sovereign Citadel—leaving her dying child alone and freezing in the dark. Enter Alpha Lucian Vane. Six years ago, a wild, masked stranger left him with memories of a chaotic Blood Moon night. Now a formidable, ruthless monarch, Lucian faces a high-stakes political coup: present a legally bound Luna to the High Council in sixteen days, or forfeit his throne to his arch-nemesis, Silas. Determined to survive, Evie makes a desperate gamble: her military secrets about Silas’s faction in exchange for medicine to save her son. But Lucian sees an even grander move on the chessboard. To thwart the Council, he declares the dirty, defiant rogue woman to be his chosen Luna. To keep her son alive, Evie must play the part of a royal bride to the tyrant king she despises. But as Lucian’s powerful Alpha aura instantly heals young Leo, a dangerous question begins to surface beneath the fortress walls: What happens when the fake bride carrying a secret royal heir realizes the ruthless Sovereign holding her captive might actually be her son’s long-lost father?