The Alpha's Forbidden Contract Mate - A Forbidden Wolf Shifter Romance of Forced Bonds, Rejected Mates, and Blood Old Enough to Break the World #977025

She didn't sign the contract.
Not willingly.
Not with a clear head.
Not with any idea that the moment she woke up the next morning, her entire life would belong to someone else.

Zara has survived a lot of things. A public rejection that left her bleeding in front of her whole pack. A stepfather who sold her like she was something he owned. And a mark on the back of her neck — forced on her while she was barely conscious — by a man she was never supposed to meet.
A man who whispered against her skin like a promise and a threat at the same time.
"You belong to me. You've always belonged to me."
She hated him for it.
She hated herself for the way her wolf didn't.

Now she's living inside the walls of Blackmoor Territory. Home of Alpha Michael — the most powerful, most calculating Alpha in the region. A man who doesn't see people. He sees resources. And Zara?
She's his most valuable one.
There's a contract with forty-three pages she was never meant to read. There are clauses designed specifically to trap her. There's a ritual planned for the next full moon that requires her blood — willing or not.

And there are three men who are making everything so much more complicated.

Dax. The one who marked her. Cold, possessive, and carrying guilt so heavy it broke him years before she arrived. He doesn't ask for forgiveness. He just removes every threat between her and the door — without being asked, without expecting thanks. Her wolf has never once treated his mark as a wound. Zara will never tell him that.

Christopher. The twin who seems safe. Warm eyes, easy laugh, coffee handed over before she even asks for it. He was supposed to monitor her. He stopped wanting to the moment he actually met her. He knows things he should have told her sooner. The cost of that silence is standing in front of him with an expression he deserves.

Riven. The one she should run from. Cold commands. Burning stares. A man who sat outside her door for eleven minutes in the dark because his wolf wouldn't let him go anywhere else. He is the only one who has never lied to her face. Not once. Even when the truth was devastating.

They all want her.
For very different reasons.
But the mate bond doesn't care about reasons.
And Zara's wolf is already choosing.

There's a secret buried in her blood that will shake the entire pack world.
A contract with fine print that could destroy everything.
A traitor hiding inside the walls she thought were keeping her safe.
And a truth about what she really is — not a burden, not a contract clause, not a resource in a suit — that someone has been hunting for three generations.

Who do you run to when the monster who broke you is standing right next to the man trying to save you?

And what happens when you realise they might be the same person?

THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN CONTRACT MATE is a full-length dark paranormal romance novel with a guaranteed happy-for-now ending and a book two hook that will keep you up at night.

This book contains:
? A forced mark she never agreed to
? Alpha twins who cannot both have her — and both want to
? A stepbrother who chose wrong and will spend the whole book trying to be right
? Gothic pack magic with ancient Latin rituals
? An empath heroine who feels everything and pretends she doesn't
? A villain you will not see coming until it is too late
? A heroine who burns the cage down with her own hands