Rejected alhpa’s queen
Jesse Shackelford
Maison d'édition: BookRix
Synopsis
They watched the bond form. They watched her bleed for it. Then they made the Alpha choose… and he chose to ruin her.Eira steps into the Moonring expecting a claim—only to be publicly cast aside by Alpha Cael while the Elders seal the vow in blood. The pack cheers. The alliance bride, Lady Soryn, tosses the Queen’s chain at Eira’s feet like she’s nothing. By dawn, Eira is marked for the Ashen Walk—stripped of rank, stripped of safety, and shoved toward the border where law goes thin and monsters don’t need permission. But Eira doesn’t stay quiet. Help comes from the low quarter, including Nessa—and a warning: out here, pity won’t save you, but teeth might. As Eira digs, she finds the rot under the pack’s rules—ironbane moving through ledgers, vows written in poison-ink, and a Council that didn’t just want her rejected… they wanted Cael “kept.” Now Bloodmoon approaches—witness night—when the sacred stone can’t hide lies. With outcasts at her back and Anwen carrying proof, Eira returns to the ring to expose the truth and force the pack to choose what it really is. Because if they’re determined to make her a lesson… she’ll become a reckoning.
