Ava Rose

Elara Vance waited six years for the night her fated mate would finally claim her. She got a different night entirely. In front of the whole Blood-Moon Pack, Alpha Cassian rejected her for a woman with better political connections, called her blood pathetic, and had her dragged to the dungeons like she was something the pack needed disposed of rather than someone who'd spent her whole life serving it. Three days later he sold her, used her as payment on a debt three generations old, owed to the most feared king in the North. Everyone told Elara to expect a monster. King Valerius isn't one. He asks how long she'd been in that cell before he agrees to take her. He gives her a warm room instead of a cage and tells her, plainly, that she's a guest until she decides otherwise. Nothing about the North matches what she was raised to fear, and the longer she stays, the more she suspects the pack that threw her away lied about more than just this. They lied about what she is. She isn't an Omega because she's weak. She's an Omega because her father spent twenty-two years hiding the truth: she's the last living Sun-Wolf, descended from a bloodline hunted to extinction, her power bound at birth to keep her invisible from the people who murdered her mother and never stopped looking for what was left. Now those people know exactly where she is. Silas was supposed to be dead. He isn't. He doesn't want Elara dead either. He wants her alive for one very specific night, when a rare eclipse will let him drain everything she is and make himself impossible to kill. He explains this to her directly, calmly, without a single threat in his voice, which is somehow worse than if he'd screamed it. She has six weeks. Between the threat closing in and a king who's been alone for a century and a half learning what it costs to have something worth losing again, Elara has to become something she was never allowed to be before: powerful, visible, impossible to overlook. She trains a voice that can silence a room full of Alphas. She learns to use a blade that answers to no hand but hers. And somewhere in a mountain cave during a blizzard, in a legal contract that becomes something neither of them planned, she falls for the man everyone told her to fear. The war doesn't end the way either of them expects. It ends with a choice about what Elara is willing to become to win, and what she refuses to become even to save the person she loves most. The girl the Blood-Moon Pack threw away is about to show an entire continent what they gave up. A rejected mate slow burn romance with a powerful heroine, a king who's been waiting a century and a half without knowing it, and a villain who's scarier for never raising his voice.

She went to the warehouse to negotiate a debt. She didn’t know I was walking into a supernatural auction. Her father died and left her nothing but two million dollars of debt to a man named Lucien Blackwood — and a dying sister whose medical bills he’d been secretly paying. He owns her before she even know his name. Lucien Blackwood is an Alpha. Powerful. Ruthless. He buys her like she just another acquisition. What he doesn’t know — what nobody knows — is that she his fated mate. And fated mates don’t stay sold.

My father spent twelve years building a case against the most dangerous man in the city. He died two days before he could present it. Now I work for the man who killed him. Dante Marrano runs his crime empire from a glass tower with no name on the door. He doesn't raise his voice or make threats. He simply makes problems disappear. I walked into his world with a clean cover, a stolen identity, and one singular goal: finish what my father started and bring Dante Marrano to his knees. What I didn't plan for was Dante himself. He knew my real name before I even spoke it. He watched me like I was the only variable in the room that mattered. Underneath his eerie stillness lives a lethal edge, and the worst part isn't the danger, it's how badly I am drawn to it. Every glance is a silent battle. Every touch is a deliberate trap. He knows I came here to destroy him. I know he isn't the simple monster the world made him out to be. As the lines between vengeance and obsession blur, the truth becomes harder to survive than the lies. In a city built on bloodshed and secrets, falling for the enemy is a death sentence, but walking away is no longer an option. One of us will burn this empire to the ground, and neither of us is walking away clean. *THE DEVIL'S CONTRACT* is a high-stakes, enemies-to-lovers mafia romance about a woman who walks into a killer's world for revenge, and the ruthless boss who lets her in because he has plans of his own.