Moonbound Sovereign

In the dying kingdom of Vardrheim, where blackened frost devours forests and crops alike, Princess Sigrid stands as the last diplomatic weapon against collapse. Her arranged marriage to Prince Torvald of neighboring Eldfjall is meant to buy mercenaries and grain before winter starves her people. Yet on the night before the vows, a colossal silver wolf tears through the palace guards and sinks its fangs into her throat. She should be dead. Instead she awakens whole, eyes glowing like molten moonlight, with an ancient voice—Rune, the exiled Moonbound Sovereign—whispering inside her mind.

Rune is no mere beast. Once the supreme alpha of the lunar spirit court, he was betrayed and imprisoned for refusing to let his kind feed on human souls. Now, after a thousand years, Sigrid’s rare bloodline lets her survive the bonding no mortal ever has. He promises the strength to end the blight that is secretly the lunar court’s vengeance against humanity. But each full moon erodes her control, fur rippling beneath her skin, instincts sharpening into hunger. The more she leans on Rune’s power, the more she becomes the monster her people burn at stakes.

As foreign armies march and the blight creeps toward the capital, Sigrid learns the only way to break the curse is to either exorcise Rune (killing them both) or complete the mating bond, surrendering her humanity forever. Duty demands she remain the pure, human queen her kingdom needs. Yet Rune’s presence feels like coming home—like a love written in starlight long before either of them drew breath.

With snow burying the land and betrayal festering in every hall, Sigrid has one brutal winter to decide: die as the last true daughter of Vardrheim, or rise as its immortal wolf queen beside the mate she was fated to destroy.