by Katie May
Part of Kingdom of Wolves, book 3
First published 2021
The Bitten are dying. Pushed into the barren south, hunted by three dominant wolf factions, they have maybe a few years left before they disappear entirely. Then the princes who run the city make their offer: one Bitten woman in exchange for her pack's survival. That woman is the protagonist, and she has ninety days to choose a husband from among the men who have always treated her kind as prey. She faces three candidates. There is the cold-blooded Totemic prince from the north, the reckless and charming Fenrir feral from the west, and the distant, unreadable Lycan from the east. Each one assumes she is a prize to be claimed and later discarded. None of them are prepared for what she actually is. The tension here is not just survival. It is the slow, charged process of three enemies discovering that the woman they underestimated holds every card. Enemies become something more complicated, and the choice of one husband begins to look less like an obligation and more like a question she refuses to answer on anyone's terms but her own.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, adult-fiction, paranormal, dark-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, charged, dark, gritty, intense, slow-burn
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, reverse-harem, why-choose
Setting: the barren south, the north, the west, the east
372 pages · Paperback · Independently published
Content warnings: death, violence