Claimed by the Alpha King

A king with a deadline. A healer with a secret. A bond neither of them saw coming. Alpha King Alaric Thorne has six weeks to claim his fated mate or lose his crown to a cousin already circling the throne. When his search ends in a border village healer with no title, no bloodline anyone can name, and absolutely no interest in becoming his queen, his entire court calls it the scandal that will finally break him. Maren Calder doesn't want a crown. She wants to save her dying village from a sickness no physician can explain, and she doesn't have time for a king's bond burning gold beneath her collarbone, however undeniable it feels. But the deeper she and Alaric dig into the blight spreading through his kingdom, the clearer it becomes: the cure is tangled up in a stolen bloodline, a buried betrayal, and a truth someone at court will kill to keep hidden. With a traitor closing in, a court that will never accept a queen without a name, and a curse that only their bond can break, Alaric and Maren have until the Hunter's Moon to claim each other publicly, or lose everything, the throne, the cure, and the one thing neither of them expected to find. This royal, fated mate, alpha king romance delivers a slow burn that ignites into a bond strong enough to heal an entire kingdom, a hero who chooses partnership over solitary power, and a heroine who proves a crown was never about bloodline at all. One-click now and fall into a royal bond worth losing a throne for.