Billionaire Alpha Contract Mate - A Dark Paranormal Romance of Fake Marriage, Fated Mates, and a Woman Who Was Never Truly Human #976732

I needed $500,000 in thirty days.

My answer? Sign my name to the coldest, most dangerous contract in New York.
Six months. One marriage. No questions. No feelings.
Simple.

Except the man I married isn't a man.

On our wedding night, when Damon Cross pins me against the wall and his eyes flood gold — molten, predatory, inhuman — I understand two things at once.
My billionaire husband is a wolf. An Alpha.
And I just signed my life away to a monster.

THE CONTRACT SAYS:
Six months of playing the perfect wife. Absolute secrecy about what I see. No questions about his world.
Penalty for breaking the agreement?
My life.

WHAT HE DIDN'T TELL ME:
I'm not just his fake wife. I'm his mate. The one his wolf has been hunting for a century. The one fated to break the ancient curse destroying his pack — if he can make me fall in love with him in exactly 180 days.

He has a plan.
He has a strategy.
He has every move calculated.
What he doesn't have — what he never planned for — is me.

But here's what I didn't know about Alphas.
They always catch what's theirs.
And here's what neither of us knew about me:

I'm not who I thought I was.

It's this:
With a single touch, I can dissolve every compulsion bond an Alpha has ever built.
I can free every wolf being held against their will.
I can dismantle an empire built on sixty years of force.
With one hand.
The woman Damon Cross married to win a war?
She just became the war.

His pack wants me claimed. The Silvercrest Pack wants me caged. And Damon — the man who chose me first for the wrong reason and then for every right one — will burn every law, every alliance, and every boundary in the supernatural world to keep anyone from taking me.

Even from himself.

Because when he finally tells me the truth — all of it, the plan and the curse and the hundred and twenty days between the strategy and the moment he realized I was something he had no strategy for — I have to decide:

Is a love built on a lie still love?
Or is it just the most devastating thing I've ever survived?

PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE:

• Dark billionaire romance with dangerous heroes
• Fated mates and claiming bites that wreck you
• Heroines who are brilliant, unbreakable, and nobody's victim
• Fake marriage that burns into something real and irreversible
• Possessive alphas who count the seconds of someone else's hug
• Secret identity reveals that reframe everything
• Slow burn that pays off in the most devastating way possible
• Wolf shifter romance with real stakes and real grief underneath the heat