My Alpha King - A Forsaken Mate Romance
Avery E. Hartwell
Publisher: BookRix
Summary
He crowned another woman.He silenced their bond before an entire kingdom.Five years later, the mate he forsook has returned to burn his empire to ash. On the night Alpha King Killian Vane felt the Mate Snap, he chose the throne over the girl in gray robes. One ritual. One public silence. One brutal decision to protect his crown and secure a political marriage. Lyra was left Unclaimed, cast out by magic and rank, forced to flee across the silver boundary where wolf law no longer ruled. Exile did not break her. It remade her. In the human world, Lyra Thorne built an empire of gold and calculation. She became the lead auditor of Thorne Capital, a financial predator feared across three territories. Now she has returned—not as a scholar, not as a forgotten mate—but as the woman capable of dismantling the Vane Royal Bank piece by piece. If the Alpha King would not choose her, she will make him kneel through commerce instead of claws. But when Killian invokes the ancient Royal Audit and traps her inside the palace for thirty days, proximity reignites what silence never truly killed. His wolf awakens. The bond burns. And the sickness he has carried for five years finally takes him to his knees. Lyra discovers the truth behind his silence—that the ritual was meant to save her life from a court that would have poisoned an unranked mate. Protection wrapped in cruelty. Love disguised as betrayal. Now the kingdom is fracturing. The Queen is fading from bond sickness. The High Council is plotting rebellion. And Lyra holds proof that Killian has been secretly diverting royal funds for five years—not for corruption, but to build a safe haven in the human lands under her name, in case she ever returned. The final choice is no longer about pride or revenge. It is about power. If Lyra completes the hostile takeover, she becomes untouchable but severs the last fragile thread binding them. If Killian publicly claims her, he risks civil war and the collapse of his throne. To survive, they must rewrite wolf law itself—risking their lives, their crowns, and the future of the realm. This is a high-heat forsaken mate romance filled with royal politics, corporate warfare, public rejection, intense grovel, powerful heroine revenge, and an Alpha King desperate to reclaim what he once sacrificed. If you crave dominant wolves, icy heroines turned queens, bond sickness angst, and a throne that must bow before love, claim your copy now.
