Alpha King's Moon

Selene Mireya Thornvale has spent twelve years living beneath a name the pack spits like a curse.Her father was branded a traitor. Her mother died guarding secrets. Her younger brother's future hangs by a thread. Selene survives as a low-ranked Moonkeeper scribe, useful enough to keep close, disgraced enough to keep small.Then the Crown Moon Conclave changes everything.Beneath the royal moon-dome, Selene's hidden crescent mark awakens and reveals the impossible: Alpha King Aric Stormborne is her fated mate.But Aric does not claim her.Before the gathered packs, he rejects her.Not because the bond is false. Not because he feels nothing. Because Selene is the daughter of the man blamed for the massacre that killed his mother.Humiliated but unbroken, Selene refuses to accept his rejection as truth. When masked wolves attack her on the mountain road and call her Warden-blood, she discovers her family's disgrace was never simple pack shame. It was a buried conspiracy tied to royal records, ancient lunar power, and an Archive the Crown pretended did not exist.Now Selene must uncover the truth her father died trying to protect, even if it means standing against the king who wounded her, the council that wants her silenced, and the mate bond that still pulls at her heart.Aric thought rejecting Selene would protect his crown.Instead, it may destroy every lie holding it together.A rejected mate. A haunted Alpha King. A forbidden lunar bloodline. And a love that can only survive if truth comes before possession.