Alpha’s allurement

Mairi of Thistle Ford has spent her life scraping by on candle fat, bread, and stubborn pride—until Blackwood’s brutal debt-law comes for her family. When the reeve’s hand tries to take her little sister as pledge and her mother dies in the market mud, Mairi is left with grief, fury, and one impossible choice: go under the protection of Alpha Draven Crowe, the very wolf who rules the law that destroyed her life. Worse, Draven knows the Council has already turned its eyes toward her, and toward the dangerous blood and trouble she may carry.Blackwood Keep is no refuge for the weak. Under Draven’s roof, Mairi is watched, judged, and expected to bend—but she refuses to become anyone’s chain, debt, or prize. Draven may be powerful enough to shield her and ruthless enough to tear down the old Iron Law, but the pull between them is its own danger: a fierce bond neither of them asked for and neither of them can ignore. And if Mairi cannot trust the Alpha who swears he will not take what she does not give, she could lose not only her freedom, but the sister she would burn the world to protect.As the Council closes in and Blackwood stands on the edge of change, Mairi must decide what kind of woman she will be: a girl crushed by grief and old law, or the wolf who rises and fights back. In a dark, emotional romance of forbidden bond, pack power, and love without chains, Alpha’s allurement is the story of a fierce heroine who refuses to kneel—and the Alpha who must prove she can stand beside him, never beneath him.