The King's Reluctant Bride
Kira Thornclaw was never supposed to be anyone's queen. Wolfless since the day she turned eighteen, she has spent her life invisible, unless her father needs someone to blame or....
Kira Thornclaw was never supposed to be anyone's queen. Wolfless since the day she turned eighteen, she has spent her life invisible, unless her father needs someone to blame or her stepsister needs someone to blame it on. So when King Derek Wolfe arrives demanding a bride, it's obvious who Alpha Rolf sends in his real heir's place: the cursed, disposable daughter he has always wished didn't exist. Derek doesn't want a wife. He wants a hostage that keeps the peace and a shield against a scheming cousin circling his throne. Vows, a signed contract, a ring, it should be simple. Until their wedding night, when he finds the scars on her back and realizes his "heir" is a stranger wearing someone else's name. Kira has secrets she didn't even know she was keeping. Her wolf isn't gone, it has been poisoned into silence for years by someone who wanted her dead slowly instead of all at once. Now she is married to the most feared man in Aethelwulf Country, trapped in a palace of Lycans who despise her, and the only person with a reason to find out who has been killing her is the husband who still doesn't trust a word out of her mouth.