Rejected Alpha’s Crowned Queen - A Crown Earned in Blood and Winter
Ascendant Nightflesh
Publisher: BookRix
Summary
Maera was never meant to return to Blackpine Hold—least of all as a rejected mate carrying secrets powerful enough to tear a pack apart.Cast out by her Alpha, marked and denied under the cold weight of packlaw, Maera comes home only to bury her mother… and is driven back into the wild before dawn. What should have been an ending becomes the spark of something far more dangerous. Her mother’s death hides a truth the ruling council is desperate to erase, and Maera carries it in her blood, her scars, and an iron ring meant to stay buried.As rival packs circle, old oaths rise from the mud, and neutral ground becomes a battlefield of words and power, Maera is forced to choose who she will be: a woman without a den—or a reckoning no crown can silence.Kellan, the Alpha who rejected her to protect his rule, wears a crown forged from compromise and fear. When the truth comes to light, his throne is no longer secure, and neither is the fragile peace holding the packs together.In a world where loyalty is currency, love is leverage, and law is written by those strong enough to enforce it, Maera must decide whether she will be used again—or whether she will claim something no one can take from her.Because some queens are not crowned by ceremony.They are crowned by survival.
