Mate abandoned by Lycan King

Maeve Gray was never meant to stand before a throne.She was lowborn. Unclaimed. A girl who learned early how to keep her head down and her hunger quiet. But the bond did not care for place—or permission.Kieran Blackthorn is the Lycan King, crowned in blood and burdened by a fragile kingdom. When Maeve dares to name the bond that ties them together, he denies her publicly, calls her claim a lie, and brands her a threat to packlaw itself.Before the fire dies, she is bound.Before dawn, she is cast out.Rejected as a false mate and banished beyond the boundary post, Maeve walks into the wild with nothing but frostbitten ground beneath her feet and a bond that refuses to die. The pack celebrates a political union meant to save them from war, while the king who once held her in the dark tells himself this cruelty was necessary.But bonds are not broken by crowns.And abandoned mates do not fade quietly.As northern alliances tighten, unrest stirs within the pack, and whispers of rebellion creep through the council, the Lycan King begins to realize the cost of his choice. Because the mate he cast aside is still breathing. Still burning. Still bound.And the wolf he tried to erase may become the one thing his kingdom cannot survive without.A dark, high‑angst paranormal romance featuring rejected mates, brutal pack politics, morally gray kings, forced exile, and a bond that refuses to stay buried.