Aria V. Wilde

Marry the man who ruined your family, or watch your father die. Aurora Reed thought she knew exactly what kind of monster Julian Vance was. She didn't know he had a reason. A fake engagement built on hatred is about to unearth a fifteen-year-old secret worth killing for — and neither of them will walk away from the truth unchanged.

On the night the moon was supposed to bind her to her mate forever, Elara Vance was cast out instead — branded, humiliated, and left for dead in the wilderness beyond Blackwood's gates. Alpha Ryker Blackwood didn't just reject her. He erased her. Three years later, something else walks back through those gates. They call her the Phantom — a masked mercenary commander whose company has become the most feared name in the underworld. No one in Blackwood recognizes the girl they threw away. Not even the Alpha whose bond with her should have died the night he severed it. But Elara didn't come home for revenge alone. Blackwood is dying from the inside, bled dry by a conspiracy that reaches back decades — and the deeper she digs, the more she uncovers about a bloodline she was never supposed to survive, and an ancient order that has spent centuries hunting it to extinction. Every truth she claws back comes at a price: who she really is, what she's capable of becoming, and whether the man who once destroyed her deserves a second chance to stand beside her. The people hunting her believe power always corrupts. Elara is about to prove them catastrophically wrong — or become exactly the monster they always said she was. Revenge was supposed to be simple. Falling for the Alpha who exiled her was never part of the plan.

Seis meses. Un anillo. Y un hombre al que juró odiar toda la vida. Cuando su padre cae fulminado por un derrame y la empresa familiar se hunde en deudas, Aurora Reed solo tiene una salida: entrar a la oficina de Julian Vance, el millonario despiadado que lleva quince años destruyendo a su familia, y pedirle clemencia. Julian no ofrece clemencia. Ofrece un contrato. Seis meses como su prometida. Vivir en su penthouse, usar su anillo, sonreír para las cámaras y convencer a todo Nueva York de que está perdidamente enamorada de él. A cambio, él pagará las cuentas del hospital y dejará en paz lo que queda del apellido Reed. Aurora firma. Lo que no sabe es que Julian tiene sus propias razones para querer a una Reed a su lado. Ni que alguien más los está observando. Porque la muerte del padre de Julian no fue lo que todos creyeron. Y entre llamadas desde un teléfono que no debería sonar, mensajes anónimos y secretos que su propia familia enterró hace años, Aurora descubre que el enemigo que tiene enfrente quizá no sea el más peligroso de la historia. Lo que empezó como una venganza se convierte en algo que ninguno de los dos planeó. Y cuanto más se acerca a la verdad, más difícil le resulta a Aurora recordar por qué debería odiarlo. Un compromiso falso. Una deuda de sangre. Y un amor que podría costarles todo.