His Defiant Queen

Their bond made them stronger. Now their enemies intend to use it to take her crown.

Audra Keene fought her way from human outsider to co-sovereign of Baltimore's Night Ward. As chairwoman of the Oversight Panel, she has dismantled corrupt contracts, challenged the ruling Houses, and forced an ancient vampire kingdom to answer to the humans it once controlled.

But the bond she shares with Bastian Sorel is growing impossible to hide.

Audra can feel the vampire king's hunger beneath her skin. Bastian senses every flare of her fear, pain, and desire. Their connection should make them unstoppable. Instead, Isabeau Orsenne has turned it into the foundation of a Fitness Challenge designed to declare Audra compromised and remove her from power.

Now every shared heartbeat is evidence.

Every involuntary reaction becomes ammunition.

Every intimate moment risks proving that Audra is no longer capable of ruling independently.

Bastian would destroy anyone who tried to take his queen. But violence will only validate the case against her. To save everything they have built, he must restrain the monster that once kept the Ward under control and trust Audra to fight for herself.

Audra has spent her life proving that love does not make her weak. Now she must stop resisting the bond, master its power, and show the Tribunal that she and Bastian are not ruler and possession.

They are two sovereigns sharing one throne.

Because the old Houses are right about one thing.

Together, Audra and Bastian are dangerous enough to rewrite every law that once held them apart.

His Defiant Queen is Book 4 of The Vampire King's Forbidden Queen, a dark, high-heat paranormal romance series featuring an established power couple, a possessive vampire king, a brilliant human queen, a growing sensory bond, political betrayal, forced proximity, open-door intimacy, and a love powerful enough to transform an entire city.