He is the king who must kill his mate.
She is the Truthreader destined to expose his kingdom’s darkest secret.
Twenty-eight days stand between them and death.

For three hundred years, the Lycan King of Valcrest has been bound by a brutal law: when his fated mate appears, he has twenty-eight days to sacrifice her—or watch the kingdom fall.

Thessaly Rain knows the Bloodright Curse is a lie.

A Thornborn outsider with a forbidden ability thought extinct, Thessaly can see through magical deception. For five years, she has followed a trail of blood magic, disappearances, and buried secrets surrounding the mysterious curse that has claimed hundreds of innocent women.

Then she enters the Lycan kingdom searching for answers—and finds her mate.

Kael Ashenfire is the Frozen King, feared for his ruthlessness and revered for his power. He has spent eight years refusing to love, haunted by the memory of what the Bloodright did to his father and the mate he was forced to kill.

He never expected his fated mate to be a defiant white wolf who stares him down instead of submitting.

He certainly never expected her to be the one woman capable of destroying everything he has been taught to protect.

Their bond is instant. Violent. Unbreakable.

And the moment it forms, the countdown begins.

Twenty-eight days until Thessaly dies.

But when Thessaly discovers a hidden message left by a previous sacrifice, she learns the horrifying truth: the Bloodright was never divine. Someone created the curse. Someone has been feeding on the deaths of fated mates for centuries. And the High Priestess who controls the kingdom’s sacred traditions may be far more dangerous—and far older—than anyone realizes.

Now the Frozen King and the woman he is destined to kill must make an impossible choice.

Obey the curse and sacrifice the love that could finally save them…

Or stand together against three hundred years of lies, blood magic, political power, and a monster determined to keep the truth buried forever.

Because sometimes fate doesn't ask you to surrender.

Sometimes it asks you to fight.

And when a Truthreader finds her king, the Bloodright may finally meet its end.

Claimed by the Lycan King is a dark, emotional fated-mates shifter romance featuring a fierce outsider heroine, a powerful tortured king, forbidden magic, a deadly countdown, ancient secrets, betrayal, political intrigue, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.