Rejected Luna's Temptation

She didn't ask to be publicly discarded. She didn't ask to be shipped north like damaged goods to salvage her family's reputation. And she definitely didn't ask to be forced into marriage with Zayden Ashford — the brutal Alpha of the Ashford Pack, a wolf whose hands are stained with blood, whose eyes are colder than the northern mountains, and whose only interest in her is the political leverage she provides. Lyra Voss once planned her own perfect ceremony. Now she is the disgraced former fiancée, the warm, brilliant woman everyone pitied while she watched Kael Drayden choose a Lower Quarter stray.  Humiliated, envious, and burning with a rage she refuses to show, Lyra arrives in Ashford ready to survive — not to feel. Zayden Ashford accepted the arranged marriage for one reason only: it gave him access to the ancient entity threatening every Surge-class wolf on the continent. Lyra was meant to be political cover. A complication. A means to an end. He never expected her fire.He never expected to want her.He never expected to fall first — and fall so hard it cracks every wall he's built since his own mate was taken by the same enemy. But secrets are poison in the north. When Lyra discovers Zayden's true reason for marrying her, the betrayal ignites something darker than hatred.  And back in Veyrath, Riven Vale's power is exploding while Cassian Vale — the charming scholar with her bloodline and the entity's knife at her throat — closes in. Jealousy will tear them apart.Desire will bind them tighter.And the ancient evil watching from the shadows is done waiting. Enemies-to-lovers. Forced proximity. He falls first. He falls harder. Public humiliation. Vicious envy. Filthy, emotionally devastating spice. A betrayal that will gut you. And a final truth that changes everything. THE REJECTED LUNA'S TEMPTATION is Book Two of the Savage Bond Series. It can be read as a standalone but will wreck readers who fell for Book 1.