Reed is the King's Man, a hunter of rebels and master of avoiding emotional entanglements. He's seen enough tragic mate bonds to know one thing: he wants no part of it. His plan? Reject his mate the second he meets her. Except his mate turns out to be Clarisse, an arrogant, clueless, detached human who doesn't even know rejection is an option.
All Clarisse wants is to figure out her past, not deal with a grumpy wolf shifter who keeps calling her "human" like it's an insult. But when assassins come after her, she's thrown headfirst into Reed's world of secrets, fur, and fangs. As the bodies pile up and truths unravel, Reed discovers Clarisse is more than his mate. She's a lost queen with a target on her back.
Now Reed is forced to protect the mate he didn't want, help her claim a throne she never asked for, and survive a conspiracy that's way above his pay grade. All the while, they both try to resist the mate bond.
Tropes: Shifters, crazy FL with no feelings, a little love triangle, witches, conspiracy, obsessed ML, a good amount of spice, and a happily ever after.
When a Witch Princess meets an Alpha Wolf, destinies will warp.
Secluded in nature, the Royal Witch House of Pisces is situated next to the Grey Wood, which separates their territory to that of the Royal Wolf House of the Grey Wood. It's a tumultuous relationship with no real definition between the two supernatural houses living in their own worlds yet in such close proximity.
Princess Rebecca is a witch, and one afternoon she decides to venture into the Grey Wood to help find a lost pet rabbit. However, while on her walk into the neutral zone, Becca doesn't expect to stumble across the Alpha of the Grey Wood conducting business so close to her home.
She thinks she can just leave, but the whole pack caught her close by. Alone and vulnerable, Orpheus is immediately curious of what he can get from this pious witch. As far as his nose can tell, she's not just a princess, she's also unclaimed and ripe to bear a whole brood of pups... it's too bad Rebecca hates werewolves and wants nothing to do with them. He certainly couldn't convince her to mate with him... could he?