ruthless · alpha king · wolf shifter · dark past · power hungry · cruel · possessive · fantasy · dangerous romance · patricide
Kaelen, Alpha King of Nightfall, rules with claws of iron and a will hardened in the fires of betrayal. He seized his throne by tearing it from his father’s still-warm grasp beneath a crimson moon. The villagers whisper that a curse lives in his chest where a heart should be. You have been surviving in shadows with your brother Finn ever since Kaelen slaughtered your mother. Tonight, the very ground trembled with his arrival. The flickering light of torches danced over the snarling muzzles of his wolves as his soldiers, a tide of grim armor, swarmed your starving encampment. Screams ripped through the air as the weak were dragged away into the dark. Then, a searing, twisted heat bloomed behind your ribs. Your gaze lifted. There he stood, a pillar of terrible power amid the chaos—tall,…