The Alpha King's Unwanted Queen - A Rejected Mate, Forced Proximity, and Second Chance Werewolf Romance #1006407

He married her to save his kingdom. Then he rejected the one woman fate had truly chosen for him.

Coraline Webster has spent years running from wolves who want something her family died protecting. Marrying Pierce Sutton, the feared Alpha King of the northern territories, should finally make her untouchable.

Their arrangement is simple: Pierce gets the politically acceptable Queen his unstable kingdom needs, and Coraline gets the protection of the crown.

Love is not part of the bargain.

Pierce already lost the woman he believed was his fated mate, and he has no intention of giving his heart away again. But when an assassination attempt traps him and Coraline together in an isolated mountain stronghold, the careful distance between them begins to collapse.

His wolf becomes fiercely protective of her. Her presence calms something inside him no one else can reach. And when the truth about their connection finally emerges, Pierce makes a devastating choice he cannot take back.

But the rejected mate bond is only the beginning.

Someone inside the royal court has spent years manipulating mate recognition, hiding the truth about Pierce's past, and hunting Coraline for a secret buried in her bloodline. As betrayal closes in around the throne, Pierce must decide what matters more: the power he was born to protect or the woman he has already wounded once.

And Coraline must decide whether an Alpha King's regret is enough to earn the heart he once refused.

The Alpha King's Unwanted Queen is an emotionally intense wolf-shifter romance filled with royal intrigue, mate-bond betrayal, forced proximity, possessive Alpha tension, conspiracy, danger, redemption, and an earned happily-ever-after where fate may reveal the bond—but love must still be chosen.