The Alpha King

Tessa White has spent twenty-two years blending into the background of her pack. The daughter of the local drunk and the ghost of a woman long gone, she's learned to survive by being quiet, dutiful, and unseen. But when the Alpha King arrives to collect on a debt her father can't repay, Tessa's life changes with one cruel decision-she becomes the payment.
Bound to a man feared by all, Tessa is thrust into a world of power, politics, and secrets. Her new role: wife to the cold, widowed King and tutor to his defiant teenage daughter. Her new fate: a gilded cage. Yet beneath the King's icy exterior lies a grief that mirrors her own. He lost his mate in childbirth; she never even met hers. Both were promised love by the Moon, and both were left with emptiness instead. As duty turns into understanding and tension ignites into forbidden warmth, the question lingers in the shadows of their bond- Can two souls broken by fate find healing in each other, or are they doomed to remain alone in this lifetime?

"Sometimes the Moon doesn't give you what you want-she gives you what you need."