Synopsis
[MATURE CONTENT 18+] I was never the desired daughter. From the moment my mother died giving birth to me, I have been a mere shadow in my own household, invisible beside my half-sister Astrid, the golden child who is genuinely loved by my father and stepmother. While Astrid amassed suitors like prizes, I secluded myself in the library, the only place where I did not feel inferior. Then came Draven. My fiancé. My supposed soulmate. The one person who was meant to choose me. Instead, I discovered him with my sister. I should have kept quiet. I should have fled. But they caught me observing, and Astrid, my own flesh and blood, looked her lover directly in the eye and instructed him to kill me. A stranger intervened and saved my life that night, but it cost him his own. And somehow, unbelievably, I am the one facing charges for his murder. I was moments away from execution when a monster in a king's form entered that courtroom and claimed me as his own. Lucian Thornveil. Alpha of Winterwood. Ruthless, frigid, and devoid of mercy—yet now I belong to him. Not as his mate. Not as his Luna. But as his breeder. I thought Winterwood would be my tomb. Instead, it has transformed into something entirely different: the place where I cease to be the girl nobody wanted and begin to evolve into the woman nobody can ignore. I possess knowledge they require. I have a mind they underestimated. And I have a list: my sister, my mate, my parents, everyone who deemed me worthless, and I plan to make each one of them suffer. Even if it leads to falling for the very Alpha who claims me. Even if it means becoming something I can’t even recognize.
