THE ALPHA'S WOLF WITCH

She was delivered to his fortress in an iron cage.
She was supposed to be his sacrifice.
She was not supposed to survive long enough to become his salvation.

For fifty-two years, Kaelan Ironfang has been rotting alive inside his own skin.

The most feared Alpha in the northern territories — a warrior who once commanded the respect of every Pack from the Frostback Mountains to the Ashen Plains — is now a prisoner in the fortress of black stone that bears his name. A dying curse from the Duskwood Coven runs through his blood like poison, consuming him slowly, refusing to let him die. Every healer who has dared to enter his chambers has left as nothing more than ash on his floor. He has given up. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just quietly, the way a man gives up when he has been alone with his own destruction long enough.

Then the Silvermoon Pack sends him a gift.

Lyra Vex is a half-breed servant with no Pack, no name worth claiming, and a dormant magic she has spent thirteen years learning to hide. She is loaded into an iron cage, bound in silver shackles, and delivered to the Ironfang fortress as a bargaining chip — chosen because no one will miss her, and because the Silvermoon Alpha suspects her Vex bloodline might be useful in ways he has not yet decided how to use.

What nobody anticipates — not the Silvermoon Alpha, not Kaelan's Beta, not Lyra herself — is what happens the moment she walks through the gates.

The curse, for the first time in fifty-two years, goes quiet.

This is a slow-burn, dark paranormal romance about a cursed king who has forgotten how to want anything, and a wolf witch who has spent her whole life making herself invisible, and the fated bond that refuses to care about either of their histories. It is a story of ancient magic and old grief and the specific, terrifying vulnerability of learning to be chosen by someone after a lifetime of being discarded. It is about a fortress that was a prison becoming a home — and the cost of what it takes to get there.

Because Lyra's bloodline is not just the key to breaking Kaelan's curse. It is also the reason someone else wants her back. And the truth she uncovers in the hidden catacombs beneath the fortress will force her to choose between the safety she has finally found and the man she was never supposed to love.

The bond is already sealed. The enemy is already at the gates. And the cure, it turns out, is far more dangerous than the curse.