Moon Marked
Kira Ashwood was born cursed.
The silver crescent mark on her shoulder blade appeared the night of her birth during a forbidden lunar eclipse a sign the pack elders called an abomination. In the rigid hierarchy of the Silverpaw Pack, moon marks are the ultimate taboo, proof of dark magic, and reason enough for execution.
Her parents hid the mark for seventeen years, but when the Alpha's son discovered her secret, everything collapsed. Her father the pack's Beta was stripped of his rank and exiled. Her mother took her own life from the shame. And Kira? She was given two choices: immediate execution or be sold to the highest bidder as a breeder.
At eighteen, standing on the auction block in chains, Kira keeps her chin high even as her world burns. Alphas from across the territories bid on her like livestock, drawn by her bloodline despite her curse. She's prepared for cruelty, for violation, for a living death.
What she's not prepared for is him.
Kieran Bloodmoon the Alpha who destroyed her pack five years ago. The executioner who slaughtered her childhood friends during the territory war. The monster whose name makes grown wolves tremble. The most brutal, powerful, devastatingly dangerous Alpha in the Northern Territories.
He buys her contract for a staggering price, and every wolf in attendance knows why: Bloodmoon Pack needs heirs, and Kira's Beta bloodline is valuable breeding stock. She'll be used until she produces strong pups, then discarded.
But when Kieran's hand closes around her wrist to claim his purchase, the world explodes.
The mate bond snaps into place with volcanic force savage, undeniable, absolutely forbidden.
Her moon mark burns silver fire. His eyes flash with something beyond shock. Around them, the crowd erupts in chaos because everyone can see it, smell it, feel it: the cursed breeder and the brutal Alpha are fated mates.
It's impossible. Alphas don't mate with marked ones. Executioners don't mate with their victims. And Kira sure as hell doesn't mate with the man who destroyed everything she loved.
"This changes nothing," Kieran growls as he drags her from the auction. "You're still my breeder. The bond means nothing."
But the bond means everything. It's driving them both mad the desperate need to touch, to claim, to complete the mating. Kira fights it with every breath, even as her body betrays her, drawn to the male she should hate more than anyone in the world.
As she's forced into Kieran's world, Kira discovers nothing is what it seemed. Her moon mark isn't a curse it's an ancient power that could shift the balance of power in the territories. Her pack's destruction wasn't random brutality it was orchestrated by someone who knew what she was and wanted her dead.
And Kieran? The monster executioner is hiding secrets that could destroy them both. He's not the mindless killer she believed. He's trapped in a political nightmare, bound by oaths to a corrupt Council, and carrying trauma that mirrors her own.
Someone powerful wants them apart. Someone is hunting moon-marked wolves and exterminating them. And someone knows that if Kira and Kieran complete their mate bond, they'll become too powerful to control.
Kira has two choices: reject the bond with the male who killed her friends and lose her one chance at revenge, or accept her fated mate and embrace the power that could save—or doom them all.
The moon marked her for a reason. Now she'll show the world why they should have feared her all along.
