She learned her exact worth at 8:40 on a Tuesday night. Five million.
That was the number Garrett wrote down for six years of her life. He didn't even look up when he pushed the folder across the table.
So Phoebe crossed out his figure and wrote a bigger one. Twenty-five million — and every message, every photograph, as leverage he couldn't argue with.
He paid. She walked down to the river alone and let herself cry for the last time.
Then she signed a contract with his adoptive father.
Lucian Nightshade is the Alpha King of the Southern Territory, thirty-five, silent, impossible to read. He filled a closet with her clothes a week before she agreed to come. He threw Garrett's scarf in the trash without a word. He told I won't touch you until you're ready.
She told him the truth — I don't love you.
He said he already knew, and that was somehow WORSE.
Because she made herself a promise at that river. Never again would her future depend on a man's signature.
And now the safest place she has ever stood belongs entirely to him.
What happens when the only thing she can't afford to lose is the one thing she never agreed to feel?
👑A werewolf billionaire romance featuring a contract marriage, a possessive Alpha hero, an age gap, and a revenge glow-up that ruins her ex slowly.
💗HEA guaranteed. No cheating, no cliffhanger. A standalone shifter romance with steamy scenes and a heroine who never begs.
I've read a few novels in this genre. It's such a pleasure to FINALLY read a good story, and it's without inconsistencies in the story line! It's actually quite well written and completely without the constant annoying errors most of the other books had. Steamy the book isn't, but the relationship described between Phoebe and Lucian doesn't need ALL the dirty details to be enjoyed. I'm off to book #2 :)