Ava Rose

Elara Vance saved for a gold dress because she believed the Blood-Moon Gala would change her life. By midnight, her fated mate, Alpha Cassian, has rejected her before the entire pack, severed their bond and offered her to the feared Frost King as payment for a generations-old debt. King Valerius of Black-Frost is the last man Elara wants to trust. His reputation frightens even other Alphas, and she expects his castle to be another prison. Instead, she finds an unlocked door—and a king who asks what she wants, even when her answer challenges him. His restraint draws her closer, but after Cassian’s betrayal, she knows attraction is no reason to hand someone power over her life. Then Elara’s long-quiet wolf begins to stir. A hidden power rises with it, drawing attention from enemies who know more about her past than she does. Cassian has not finished trying to shape her future, and Valerius may be keeping a truth of his own. As danger closes around Black-Frost, Elara must learn what she is, decide whom she can trust and fight for the freedom she was denied. Falling for the Frost King could give her a future she never imagined—but only if she can choose it for herself.

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 Dante Marrano. Two days before he could present it, he died. Now I work for the man I believe had him killed. Under a false identity, I enter Dante’s glass tower with one purpose: find the evidence my father never lived to expose. Every file I open, every conversation I overhear, brings me closer to the truth—and closer to a man who notices far too much. Dante doesn’t need to shout to frighten people. He remembers what they want. He knows what they owe. And when he turns his attention on me, I can’t decide whether he’s studying a threat or discovering something he intends to keep. I should hate everything about him. Instead, I notice the restraint beneath his ruthlessness. The moments when he listens. The way he makes room for my defiance when anyone else would silence it. Wanting him feels like betraying my father. Trusting him could get me killed. Then Dante reveals that he knows who I am—and why I came. He doesn’t send me away. But being allowed to stay isn’t the same as being safe. Someone knows what happened to my father. Someone is willing to bury the evidence again. And the closer I get to Dante, the harder it becomes to separate what he’s protecting from what he’s hiding. I came to bring him down. I won’t abandon the truth to save him. Even if finding it destroys the only man I’ve wanted this badly. Even if he gives me every reason to stay. In his world, loyalty has a price, desire creates leverage, and love offers no immunity. To finish what my father started, I’ll have to risk more than my cover. I’ll have to decide what I refuse to surrender—even to Dante.