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Lycan's stolen mate

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She was three days from marrying the wrong man. He walked in and took her anyway. Mara Voss has spent her whole life being careful. Careful enough to survive a pack that never quite claimed her. Careful enough to accept a loveless mating ceremony as her future. Careful enough to ignore the strange, ancient ache in her chest that has no name. Then Caelan Drak Lycan King, ruthless ruler of the Ironveil Mountains walks into her mating ceremony and ends it in four minutes flat. He doesn't apologize. He doesn't explain. He calls her his, and he takes her home. Mara is furious. She is also, infuriatingly, not afraid of him. Inside Ironveil's cold, ancient fortress, the truth begins to surface piece by piece about the mark she's carried since childhood, about the mother she was told died a victim, and about the deal made years ago that made Mara more valuable than anyone ever let her believe. Caelan keeps his distance. He tells himself it's protocol. He's lying. Mara keeps her walls up. She tells herself she refuses to love a man who stole her. She's lying too. But when betrayal arrives wearing a familiar face and the enemy closes in to silence her for good Mara will have to decide who she trusts, what she fights for, and whether the bond pulling her toward a cold-eyed Lycan King is fate's cruelty or the one true thing she's ever been given. He took her to save her. She'll stay to destroy everything that tried to break her. And somewhere in between they'll wreck each other in the best possible way.
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