Rejected by My Alpha, Claimed by the Lycan King

For years, Adrianna lived under the crushing, abusive rule of Clayton Collins, the arrogant and unstable Alpha of the Southern Silver Crest pack, believing herself to be a weak and disposable omega. When she flees the brutal confines of the south into the treacherous, mist-veiled northern territory known as the Deadlands, her path crosses with Riggs Dominguez, the fierce and hyper-perceptive Lycan King. Riggs is plagued by a hereditary, generational madness, but the moment he rescues Adrianna, an intense, "high-friction" physical and psychic bond ignites between them, stabilizing his inner beast. As the Southern Alliance launches a brutal, silver-nitrate-fueled military siege against the northern citadel to reclaim Adrianna, she unlocks a dormant, immortal power within herself: the lineage of the Sovereign Ember. Stepping onto the battlefield, she uses this newly awakened power to violently shatter Clayton's psychic pack-link from the inside out, paving the way for Riggs to decisively break the Southern Alpha in a brutal, primitive territorial duel. However, their hard-won coronation as equal rulers of the newly united Shadowbound Kingdom is short-lived. Deep within the castle vaults, the catastrophic awakening of Adrianna's powers shatters the ancient Shifter Relic, dissolving the laws that historically separated the species. Inside the relic, they discover a horrifying truth: Adrianna’s abuse, her flight to the north, and her romance with Riggs were all meticulously engineered decades ago by an elite, immortal High Council to force this exact war. With an unknown, monolithic armada darkening the horizon and a mysterious figure watching from the shadows, Adrianna and Riggs must prepare to turn from prey into hunters, waging a fated war against the very architects of their lives.