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Crown of the Forsaken Luna: When the Wolfless Outcast Becomes Queen

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"You're wolfless. Worthless. And you'll never be Luna of this pack." Isla Thorne believed Damien Silvercrest loved her despite her lack of a wolf. For three years, she served his pack, endured his family's contempt, and clung to the hope that their mate bond would be enough. She was wrong. On the night Damien was supposed to announce her as his Luna, he rejected her in front of the entire pack—for her stepsister Vivienne, who carries his child and has the perfect bloodline Isla could never provide. But rejection wasn't enough. When a sacred relic goes missing, Isla is framed for the theft, beaten, and exiled into the Rogue Lands with nothing but the clothes on her back and a secret growing in her belly. Left to die in territory where rogues hunt anything that moves, Isla makes a desperate choice: she accepts the hand of a mysterious stranger who appears from the shadows wearing an obsidian mask. "Become my Luna Queen," he offers in a voice like smoke and thunder. "I'll give you power, protection, and everything you need to destroy those who wronged you." She doesn't know he's Cassian Nightshade, the Lycan King whose name makes Alphas tremble. She doesn't know he's been searching for her for years. And she doesn't know that she isn't wolfless at all—her wolf was bound by a curse to hide the ancient bloodline that makes her the last heir to the Moonborn, a royal line everyone believed extinct. As Cassian teaches Isla to unlock her true power, their arranged partnership ignites into something neither expected. He's ruthless, scarred, and broken by a past he won't reveal. She's fierce, damaged, and determined to never trust a mate bond again. But the pup growing inside her carries magic that could change everything—and enemies from both their pasts are coming to destroy them. When Damien realizes what he's lost and Vivienne's lies begin to unravel, they'll discover that the wolfless outcast they discarded is now the most powerful Luna in existence. And she's coming home—not to beg for acceptance, but to take what's rightfully hers. Some wolves are born to rule. Others are forged in betrayal and crowned in vengeance.
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