“I’d never felt more alive in my life. It was like I had been living a half-life up to this point with Caine’s mark poisoning every moment, every thought… every feeling.”
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Amaya, Princess of Emerald Mountain, is finally coming of age. She’s set to formalize an arrangement between Caine, the Alpha of Wormwood, and her father. When Caine callously rejects their bond, Amaya’s father banishes her– forever. With nowhere to turn, she ends up in the arms of her pack’s sworn enemy, alone in a territory of darkness and nightmares… The Kingdom of Shadowguard.
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“There was something so familiar about him but I couldn’t place it. It was as if my heart knew him all along… but that was ridiculous.” 
Mated to the Alpha of Shadows is created by Claire Wilkins, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author. 

Mated to the Alpha King of Shadows

I felt like I was on fire, boiling from the inside. I couldn’t move my arm. I fell in and out of consciousness unable to eat or drink. My body was sore from being tied to the bed except for relieving myself but even during that, I was supervised. I was too out of it to even care about my dignity, that felt like a pipe dream. 


My body would randomly and violently convulse causing the ropes to dig into my skin. The rope burns only added to the burning sensation that my body could not shake. This was more than a normal fever. This was something else entirely, it felt like magic. 


I’d only ever experienced magic while I was at Bludleach. It hadn’t occurred to me that something as powerful and beautiful as magic could be perverted into something as dark and sinister as what I’d been experiencing for several days. 


It was the only explanation that made any sense in my dazed brain. Dark evil magic that was tearing about my soul and keeping me separated from Wren. 


Chapter 36 : Caine’s Mark