

Ronan is the Alpha of Silverpine Pack. To protect Mara, the widow of the warrior who died saving him, and her young son, he repeatedly chooses them over his own family. The entire pack praises his loyalty and honor. Only I know that every promise he keeps to Mara teaches his own daughter to stop waiting for him. Then Ivy writes in an assignment at the pack academy: [My father is dead.] [He did not die at the border. He died at Mara’s house. Every time she called, he went to her and forgot how to come home.] Ronan finally realizes something is wrong and returns with a belated gift. What he does not know is that a summons from the Northern Crown has already reached me. In fifteen days, I will take Ivy home, reclaim my place as the Alpha King’s daughter, and accept my appointment as Northern Crown’s next chief healer, a future I once gave up for Ronan.

On her wedding day, common-born healer Mara is abandoned by the prince she loves and forced to become the Death Bride of Ronan, the supposedly dead King of Vargan. Buried alive beside him, she discovers the impossible—the dead king is still alive. Betrayed by their own kingdoms, Mara and Ronan rise from the grave as allies. Through love, conspiracy, and a brutal fight for power, a rejected bride begins her journey to become Empress.

Forced by her father’s betrayal, Elara shatters Hadrian’s heart by pretending to choose another man.Six years later, she is secretly raising her sick son, while Hadrian has risen as the ruthless Vampire King.When they meet again, old hatred ignites with a love neither of them ever buried.