Alpha's Shadow, Queen's Crown

"You smell like an alpha pretending to be prey. Tell me, little servant—who are you really hiding from?" Twenty-six-year-old Keira Ashford is the legitimate Alpha heir of Silverpine Pack, but no one knows it. After her father's sudden death, her stepmother Helena and half-brother Marcus staged a coup, poisoning the pack elders against her and forcing her into hiding. Now she scrubs floors and serves meals in her own pack house, invisible in plain sight, gathering evidence of the betrayal that stole her birthright. Her plan is simple: collect proof, expose the traitors, reclaim her position. What she doesn't plan for is Theron Nightfang, the ruthless Alpha King of Shadowcrest—Silverpine's oldest rival—who arrives for a forced alliance meeting and immediately senses something is off about the "clumsy servant girl" who can't seem to stop challenging him. "You have an alpha's eyes," he tells her during a midnight encounter. "And you're a terrible liar." When Theron publicly claims Keira as his mate to prevent her stepbrother from killing her, she's forced into an impossible position: accept protection from her pack's greatest enemy, or die at the hands of her own family. But Theron has his own secrets—he knows exactly who she is, and he's been waiting years for the chance to claim Silverpine's true alpha as his own. Caught between a stepfamily determined to bury her forever and a rival king who wants to own her completely, Keira must decide: reclaim her pack from the shadows, or rise as a queen beside the man who was supposed to be her enemy? Some wolves are born to lead. Others are forged in betrayal. She's both.