Cursed by Midnight
A Forbidden Love Alpha Redemption Werewolf Romance
Published on 13. April 2026
979-12-244-5891-3 (ISBN)
Description
She came back to burn his kingdom down. She didn't expect to want to save it.
Four years ago, Alpha King Aldric Morne stood before his entire pack and severed the fated mate bond with Sorcha Calder - casting her out at sundown with nothing but her pride, her fury, and a secret she didn't yet know she carried. He chose political power over destiny. He chose a crown over her.
He chose wrong.
Now Sorcha is back - but not broken, not begging. She returns as commander of the Ashborne, a sovereign coalition of exiled and rejected wolves she built from nothing in the borderlands. She returns with legal ammunition sharp enough to dismantle the corrupt council that orchestrated her downfall. She returns with the Crown of Ashes - the ancient iron relic that anchors the entire kingdom's founding covenant - held hostage in her hands.
And she returns with a four-year-old boy who has his father's iron-grey eyes.
Aldric's kingdom is dying. A supernatural sickness called the Ashfall is stealing wolves' ability to shift, spreading from pack to pack and targeting the oldest bloodlines first. Ancient texts point to one cause - his severed fated bond - and one cure - Sorcha. He needs her cooperation to save his people. He needs her forgiveness to save himself. And proximity to the woman he destroyed is waking something in the bond he was told could never be repaired.
But the same council that manipulated him into rejecting her four years ago still holds power - and when Sorcha's secret is revealed, they will use every ancient law available to take the one thing she has spent four years protecting.
Revenge was supposed to be cold. Strategic. Clean.
She didn't plan on the bond burning hotter than her fury. She didn't plan on the man who broke her choosing, every single day, to become someone worth trusting. She didn't plan on wanting to build something from the ashes of everything he destroyed.
Crown of Ashes is a scorching slow-burn paranormal romance set in an ancient wolf kingdom. It features a rejected mate who comes back stronger, a secret baby who changes everything, an Alpha King earning redemption one honest choice at a time, and a fated bond that four years of separation made into something fiercer than destiny.
Perfect for fans of ancient-world paranormal romance with deep emotional stakes, political intrigue, and a hard-won happily ever after that burns bright on every page.
One crown. Two bloodlines. A love story forged in the fire of everything that tried to destroy it.
Read Crown of Ashes today - because the best revenge isn't burning it down. It's building something better on the ash.
Four years ago, Alpha King Aldric Morne stood before his entire pack and severed the fated mate bond with Sorcha Calder - casting her out at sundown with nothing but her pride, her fury, and a secret she didn't yet know she carried. He chose political power over destiny. He chose a crown over her.
He chose wrong.
Now Sorcha is back - but not broken, not begging. She returns as commander of the Ashborne, a sovereign coalition of exiled and rejected wolves she built from nothing in the borderlands. She returns with legal ammunition sharp enough to dismantle the corrupt council that orchestrated her downfall. She returns with the Crown of Ashes - the ancient iron relic that anchors the entire kingdom's founding covenant - held hostage in her hands.
And she returns with a four-year-old boy who has his father's iron-grey eyes.
Aldric's kingdom is dying. A supernatural sickness called the Ashfall is stealing wolves' ability to shift, spreading from pack to pack and targeting the oldest bloodlines first. Ancient texts point to one cause - his severed fated bond - and one cure - Sorcha. He needs her cooperation to save his people. He needs her forgiveness to save himself. And proximity to the woman he destroyed is waking something in the bond he was told could never be repaired.
But the same council that manipulated him into rejecting her four years ago still holds power - and when Sorcha's secret is revealed, they will use every ancient law available to take the one thing she has spent four years protecting.
Revenge was supposed to be cold. Strategic. Clean.
She didn't plan on the bond burning hotter than her fury. She didn't plan on the man who broke her choosing, every single day, to become someone worth trusting. She didn't plan on wanting to build something from the ashes of everything he destroyed.
Crown of Ashes is a scorching slow-burn paranormal romance set in an ancient wolf kingdom. It features a rejected mate who comes back stronger, a secret baby who changes everything, an Alpha King earning redemption one honest choice at a time, and a fated bond that four years of separation made into something fiercer than destiny.
Perfect for fans of ancient-world paranormal romance with deep emotional stakes, political intrigue, and a hard-won happily ever after that burns bright on every page.
One crown. Two bloodlines. A love story forged in the fire of everything that tried to destroy it.
Read Crown of Ashes today - because the best revenge isn't burning it down. It's building something better on the ash.
