The Crown Cannot Command Her

He can command a kingdom to kneel. She can look him in the eye and refuse.

Mara Vey wants her missing brother home and her village safe. When a royal evacuation order threatens everything she is fighting to protect, the stubborn surveyor challenges the maps behind it. Then the Lycan King arrives, speaks a command no subject should be able to resist, and discovers that Mara is still standing.

His wolf recognizes her as his mate.

She recognizes a man accustomed to being obeyed.

King Iven Orsik offers Mara an independent commission to uncover the truth. Working beside him draws her into a court where altered records conceal dangerous secrets, ancient oaths bind unwilling lives, and questioning the crown makes enemies. It also brings her close enough to discover the exhausted, fiercely compelling man beneath his authority.

Every honest answer makes him harder to resist. Every stolen kiss gives her more to lose.

But desire cannot make a dangerous bond safe. And good intentions cannot undo the harm committed in a kings name.

With her familys future caught in a widening conspiracy, Mara must decide how much of her heart she can risk on a man whose power could take away her choice.

Iven knows how to make people obey.

To win the woman he wants, he must learn what it costs to let her walk away.