She was raised knowing her family owed a debt written in blood. She never expected the wolf king collecting it would be the one man she couldn't stop wanting.
For two centuries, House Vantree has paid Kaldenmoor's crown with a bride, bound by treaty to hold back the madness eating away at every wolf king who's ever worn it. When King Aldric Nordvane rides south to collect what's owed, Sorcha Vantree isn't the frightened, obedient payment he expected. She's a trained healer who refuses to be handled, and the moment their eyes meet, Aldric understands his kingdom just became the least of his problems.
The bond that's supposed to save him is killing her, slowly, exactly the way it killed every bride before her. Aldric knows it. He married her anyway. Now Sorcha has to decide whether to fight a man who took her by treaty right, or admit that the king she was sold to is the first person who's ever told her the truth, even when it cost him.
As Sorcha digs into a two hundred year old lie that's been quietly killing queens, and Aldric's own brother circles the throne waiting for him to fall, the two of them have to choose between the safe distance a forced marriage was always supposed to keep and the dangerous, undeniable pull neither of them saw coming. If the bond breaks before they find another way, it won't just cost the kingdom its king. It will cost Sorcha her life.
If you love dark royal romance, forced marriage tropes, and an alpha king who'd burn his own crown down for the woman he wasn't supposed to fall for, The Wolf King's Captive Bride delivers a slow burn, steamy standalone with a guaranteed happy ending. Read it today.