QUEEN OF THE FORSAKEN MOON
Aria Thornfield, 22, has known nothing but cruelty her entire life. Born an omega—the lowest rank in the werewolf hierarchy—she's been treated as less than nothing by the Silvercrest Pack. She scrubs floors, endures beatings, and survives on scraps, all while clinging to the foolish hope that the Moon Goddess has something better planned for her.
That hope shatters the night of her 18th birthday when the mate bond snaps into place with Damien Silvercrest, the pack's arrogant young Alpha. She expects salvation. Instead, she gets a nightmare.
Damien rejects her publicly, humiliates her repeatedly, but refuses to sever the bond completely. He keeps her close enough to use—her omega healing abilities fix his warriors, her domestic skills serve his pack—while giving his heart and title to Celeste, the beautiful Beta's daughter. For four agonizing years, Aria exists in limbo: not rejected enough to be free, not accepted enough to matter.
When Celeste announces her pregnancy with Damien's child, Aria finally understands: she was never meant to be Luna. She was just convenient. Broken and ready to die, she stumbles into the Forbidden Forest during a blood moon, prepared to let the rogues or worse claim her.
Instead, she's claimed by something far more terrifying: Kaine Ashenheart, the Lycan King.
The Lycans are ancient, powerful, and utterly ruthless. Kaine rules them all—a beast who hasn't taken a queen in 300 years, whose fortress of black stone sits at the edge of werewolf territory like a warning. Rumors say he collects the heads of alphas who challenge him. That he bathes in blood. That his heart died centuries ago.
But when Kaine finds Aria bleeding in his forest, he doesn't kill her. He offers her a deal: become his contracted queen for one year. Help him navigate an upcoming alliance summit with the werewolf packs. In return, he'll give her protection, power, and revenge.
Aria accepts. She has nothing left to lose.
What she doesn't expect is for the monster king to be patient. Tender. To wait for her permission before touching her. To rage when he discovers the scars covering her body. To teach her that she was never weak—she was just surrounded by cowards who feared her potential.
As Aria learns to command rooms full of alphas, as ancient magic awakens in her blood, as the rejected omega becomes the most feared queen in living memory, she realizes three impossible truths:
First, she's not just an omega. She's something far older, far more powerful—the last of the Moon's Chosen, blessed bloodline everyone thought extinct.
Second, Kaine isn't her fated mate. But the bond they're forging through choice, through trauma, through healing—it burns brighter than any the Moon Goddess could create.
Third, Damien isn't going to let her go. And Celeste's child isn't his heir—it's part of a conspiracy to overthrow the Lycan King and plunge the supernatural world into war.
Now Aria must choose: hide in the safety Kaine offers, or step into the queen she was always meant to be—even if it means facing the pack that broke her, the alpha who betrayed her, and a destiny that will require her to rewrite the very laws of the Moon Goddess herself.
Because Aria Thornfield was forged in suffering. And queens forged in fire don't just survive. They reign.