She was a blade honed by defiance, an omega who would sooner die than kneel. But her flight from a life of forced submission leads her straight into the heart of a territory ruled by an alpha more powerful and primal than any she has ever known.
Lirien ran from her pack's expectations, from a life tethered to an alpha's will. She seeks freedom in the neutral lands, a place where she can finally be her own master. But the forest has other plans. It exhales a damp, feral musk that isn't just the wild—it's him. Voren. A massive, scarred alpha whose very presence is a physical weight, a hypnotic pull on her most traitorous instincts. He is the one alpha she can't outrun, and he has been waiting.
Trapped in his sprawling den, a prisoner of a forbidden mating fever that threatens to betray her every resolve, Lirien is forced to confront the man who claims she is already his. He doesn't want to break her; he wants to wield her. In a world of savage passion and dark secrets, she discovers that the line between captor and mate is dangerously thin. As his patient, tantalizing seduction wears down her defenses, she is faced with a terrifying choice: surrender to the lust that could shatter her identity, or fight the one man who sees the weapon she is and isn't afraid of her edge.
This is not a story of gentle courtship. It is a raw, thrilling battle of wills where surrender is only the beginning. In this dark and sensual world, the ultimate prize is not submission, but a connection so profound it could either save them both or leave them in ruins.
Will she escape his grasp only to lose herself, or will she find a new kind of freedom in the arms of the alpha who has marked her as his own?
