A kingdom is divided between humans and werewolves. The Southlands are ruled by a human king, while the Northlands, beyond the Borderlands, are home to the wolf clans — once warring, now beginning to unite under a single Wolf King. Wolves can shift into their wolf form under the full moon, but are otherwise locked in human bodies, and the two sides have been at war for centuries. Princess Aurora, daughter of the human king, is about to marry Lord Sebastian, a Borderlands lord, to secure his military alliance.
The Wolf King Series
Book 1: The Wolf King
Book 2: The Night Prince
Book 3: COMING SOON… The Wolf Queen
Main Characters
Aurora: Princess of the Southlands.
Callum: Alpha of the Highfell Clan.
Sebastian: A Borderlands lord and Aurora’s intended.
James: The Wolf King and Callum’s brother.
Blake: A half-wolf alpha with leverage over much of the wolf court.
The Wolf King Full Summary
The night before her wedding, Aurora attends a dog fight in Lord Sebastian’s Great Hall, where captured wolves are forced to fight for sport. When a massive alpha is set against a young boy and the boy accepts his death, Aurora stands and asks Sebastian to spare him as a wedding gift. Sebastian agrees, but whispers a threat in her ear.
After Aurora sneaks into the kennels to tend the boy’s wounds at night, and the wolves break out. The alpha, Callum, takes Aurora with him during the siege. Aurora willingly chooses to go, fleeing the castle as Sebastian’s Borderlands burn behind them.
Callum takes her north into the wild mountains beyond the Borderlands as his hostage. The wolves plan to trade her for the Heart of the Moon, an ancient artefact that would let them shift at will rather than only under the full moon. With it, they could win the war.
They arrive at the wolf court while James, the Wolf King and Callum’s brother, is away. In his absence, Blake holds authority, watching Aurora with calculated interest and wielding leverage over much of the court. Callum does not trust him, but tolerates him because of that leverage.
Aurora begins to see the wolves as people rather than monsters, witnessing their families, their culture, and the cost of the war from their side. Her loyalty to her father’s kingdom starts to fracture, and she does not want to be traded or sent home. When James returns, he is unimpressed that Callum kidnapped a princess without consulting him, but agrees she could be useful. Aurora and Callum grow close, but when word spreads that James intends to trade her, they escape and are caught with Blake’s help.
James gives Aurora an ultimatum: agree to marry him, or be returned to Sebastian. Aurora strikes her own bargain, offering to kill Sebastian in exchange for her freedom. When Sebastian captures her and forces her into a carriage, Aurora remembers the knife James gave her before the exchange. She retrieves it and slides it across Sebastian’s throat. James, in wolf form, then turns on Aurora, biting her at the waist, and she collapses, bleeding heavily. Callum arrives and fights James, snarling that he’ll challenge him for the throne if he ever touches Aurora again. Callum arrives and fights James, but James pins him. Blake shifts and attacks James, driving him off long enough for Callum to carry Aurora clear. Enraged by James trying to claim Aurora, Callum decides that he will fight his brother for the throne.
With Aurora dying from the bite, Blake tells Callum that Aurora is a half-wolf, and that James’s bite will either force her wolf nature to emerge and save her, or dominate it and kill her. Blake performs a ritual to share his life force with her and help her survive. When Aurora wakes, Blake explains the consequence: the ritual has created a bond between them so they can feel each other’s emotions. If Blake is hurt, Aurora is hurt, and if Blake dies, she dies too.
Blake also shares his theory about Aurora’s pst: her mother was a half-wolf, murdered with wolfsbane by Aurora’s father, and the childhood illness that was beaten out of Aurora by the king’s physicians was, in Blake’s view, her wolf nature being suppressed.
That night, Aurora pieces together Blake’s full plan. He arranged for James to propose marriage to her rather than simply trading her back to Sebastian, knowing Callum would never forgive his brother. He manoeuvred Callum into wanting the throne. The life bond means Callum cannot challenge Blake if Blake makes a move for the throne, because hurting Blake means hurting Aurora, and Callum would have to forfeit the throne rather than risk her life.
Next in Series
Callum is set on taking the Wolf Throne from James. Blake’s life bond with Aurora makes him untouchable. The war between humans and wolves continues, and darker forces are rising in the north.
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