Marked by Moonlight - An Alpha's Fated Mate Shifter Werewolf Romance #968011

She carries a curse that kills every man who dares to love her. He is the most powerful Alpha in the highlands — and he has already decided he doesn't care.
Ailith has spent twenty-four years running. As the last Moon-Sworn — a woman consecrated to the Moon Goddess and branded at birth with an ancient crescent mark — she knows exactly what she is: a death sentence for any wolf foolish enough to bond with her. The Thornveil Curse is not legend. It is documented history. Twenty-two names. Twenty-two graves. She has read every one of them.
She does not intend to add a twenty-third.
Braegan Cathmore, Alpha King of the Ironmoor territories, sealed off the part of himself that believed in fated mates the night he lost his first bond. For fifteen years he has ruled through discipline, distance, and the cold certainty that needing someone is a luxury a king cannot afford. Then a wandering hedge-healer with storm-grey eyes and a glowing crescent scar arrives at the edge of his territory — and his wolf, silent for six years, recognises her in the space of a single breath.
He is not prepared for her to run. She is not prepared for him to follow.
But something older than the curse is moving in the highland darkness. The dying Blood Elder who murdered the last Moon-Sworn woman and cursed her bloodline into extinction is sending his forces west — and he will burn everything between him and Ailith before the Blood Moon rises. Because somewhere in the ancient ruins of a forgotten sanctuary, there is a Rite that can break the curse entirely. And he cannot allow that.
Braegan has survived war, grief, and fifteen years of deliberately choosing nothing. He is not willing to choose nothing now.
Ailith has survived by staying invisible, staying moving, and never — not once — letting herself want something she could not afford to lose. She is not sure she knows how to stop.
But the Moon Goddess has never been wrong in three thousand years. And the blue butterfly that has been following Ailith across the highlands for three years has finally stopped moving.
Marked by Moonlight is a slow-burn, steamy paranormal romance set in a richly imagined ancient world of wolf-shifters, sacred bloodlines, and a love powerful enough to undo a forty-year curse. Perfect for readers who love emotionally devastating fated mate romances, fierce heroines who have forgotten how to want things, and Alpha heroes who are entirely certain and completely ruined.
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