Tamed by Love

He is called the Wolf, and every soul in the kingdom knows better than to stand too close to his teeth.

When King Aldric forces Lucien de Vierre into marriage, it isn't a gift—it's a sentence. Punishment for bedding the wrong woman, though Lucien never knew she belonged to the crown. Now he's bound to Mariel, a soft-spoken, sharp-minded woman who arrives at his crumbling gothic estate expecting coldness, indifference, and a husband who will never truly see her.

She's right about two out of three.

Lucien sees Mariel far too clearly, and that terrifies him more than any battlefield ever has. Beneath her quiet warmth and unnerving patience lives something he hasn't encountered in years—someone utterly unafraid to challenge him. She doesn't flinch at his silences or crumble beneath his fury. She simply waits, watches, and somehow finds the cracks in the armor he's spent decades perfecting.

But Lucien's past is more dangerous than his reputation suggests. Rebellion. Blood. Secrets that could shatter everything Mariel is beginning to feel for the brooding man who holds her future in his scarred hands. And in the shadowed halls of a kingdom where loyalty is currency and love is a liability, letting herself matter to a man like him might cost Mariel far more than she bargained for.

Sometimes the most dangerous thing a wolf can do is learn to love something worth protecting.