The Embermoon Luna

For five years, I was the quiet archivist in the corner, the overlooked betrothed of the Ashfall Alpha. I convinced myself that a predictable, lukewarm love was my destiny. I was a fool.
Three nights before the wedding, I found him with his true desire pressed against the altar stone. He didn't plead for my forgiveness. He pleaded for her validation. And in that moment, something inside me didn't break. It woke up. I severed our bond with a blood-soaked ritual and walked away, free for the first time in my adult life.
But freedom comes with a shadow. Kaelen Voss, the apex Alpha of Obsidian Ridge, a man carved from ice and volcanic fury, appears at my ruined wedding feast as if summoned by my defiance. He doesn't ask for my hand. He tells me he has been waiting for six years to claim it. He sees not a jilted bride, but the Embermoon Luna of prophecy, a queen destined to rule or raze the pack lands.
He offers me a place in his fortress, a chance to uncover the truth of my lineage, and a choice he swears is mine alone. But every look he gives me is a brand, every controlled word a promise of a fire that will consume us both. When a hidden enemy frames me for a crime that could ignite a war, Kaelen is the only shield I have. He will walk into the inferno for me. But can I trust a man who admits he has been orchestrating my escape from the shadows for half a decade? And when the blood-red Embermoon finally rises, will I bow to him, or will I make the entire world bow to me?