Twenty years ago, Katie Costa disappeared from Obsidian Crest with the newborn heir to the most powerful Alpha throne in the supernatural world.
Everyone believed she and the baby were dead.
They were wrong.
Now Alpha King Eden Horton is fighting to hold together a kingdom poisoned by betrayal, political corruption, and a ruthless enemy determined to destroy his bloodline. Just when Ironspire is close to falling, Katie returns as a hardened commander with an army at her back—and beside her stands Julian, the grown son Eden never knew survived.
Eden wants answers.
Katie wants protection for the son she nearly died saving.
Julian wants nothing to do with a crown that has already cost his family twenty years.
But when evidence reveals that the same people who ordered Julian’s death are still hiding inside Eden’s government, Katie has no choice but to remain inside the fortress she once escaped.
Forced into close quarters with the man she never truly forgot, old anger turns dangerously intimate. Every argument brings Katie and Eden closer, while a long-buried mate bond threatens to expose feelings neither is prepared to surrender to.
Because this war was never only about Eden’s throne.
Someone has been waiting twenty years for the hidden heir to return.
And now that Julian has finally been found, his enemies intend to make sure his mother cannot save him twice.
