Wildlife biologist Dr. Serafina Voss has spent three years tracking wolves in the Scottish Highlands. She knows every ridge, every valley, every behavioral pattern of the packs she studies. What she doesn't know what she couldn't possibly know is that the boundary she crosses one blood-red evening isn't a fence line or a survey marker.
It's the edge of a world that isn't supposed to exist.
And the man who steps out of the dark to claim her isn't a man at all.
King Caelum Draven has ruled Dravenmoor for three centuries with the iron patience of someone who has survived everything war, betrayal, a supernatural curse that has killed every woman he has ever loved. When a half-Lycan biologist with Draven blood walks through his ward boundary on the first night of the blood moon, every instinct he has spent a hundred years burying detonates at once.
She is his fated mate.
Which means she is also in the most danger she has ever been in.
Caelum will not claim her. He knows exactly what happens to the women he claims he placed their stones in the earth with his own hands. But the blood moon is rising, a rival wolf lord is circling his territory with forty years of ambition and nothing left to lose, and the woman he is trying to protect keeps asking him the one question he has never known how to answer honestly.
Why won't you touch me?
Serafina didn't come to the Highlands to find a supernatural king or a centuries-old curse or a bond she never asked for burning in her chest like a second heartbeat. She came to document wolves. What she's documenting now in the field notes she keeps in her head because he took her satellite phone is something she has no existing scientific framework for.
A man who is three hundred years of terrible and beautiful. A world that has been waiting for her blood to come home. A curse that can only be broken by a choice she has not yet been given the full information to make.
And a king who keeps standing outside her door in the dark and walking away, because the only thing more dangerous than wanting her is letting himself have her.
Claimed by the Lycan King is a full-length standalone dark paranormal romance featuring a possessive alpha Lycan king, a sharp-witted scientist heroine who refuses to be managed, forced proximity in an ancient Highland fortress, a fated mate bond with real stakes and real resistance, and a happily-ever-after that is earned through genuine emotional cost.
For readers who like their alphas dark and their heroines sharper. Heat level: scorching. Guaranteed HEA.
If you love dark possessive paranormal romance with alpha kings who fall hard and heroines who hold their ground — this is the book you've been looking for.
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