Synopsis:
In the ashes of a fallen kingdom, a disgraced queen becomes a tyrant’s obsession—and the deadliest weapon in a war she never asked to fight.
Lakshmi Vasumathi was born to rule. But when her father’s throne is seized by the treacherous King Varun, she’s stripped of her crown, her name, and her dignity. Reduced to a slave, she survives with only two things: the loyalty of her people, who still whisper her name like a prayer, and the jagged crest she carved into her own arm to remember who she is.
Her defiance earns her a death sentence—until Alpha Queen Zoya a ruthless wolf monarch with a taste for chaos, intervenes. Not to save her, but to gift her to Alpha King Kael, Zoya’s insatiable warlord husband. Known as the Beast of Ashes.
Kael collects broken things… and breaks them further.
But Lakshmi is no fragile toy.
Thrust into a lethal game of court politics, Lakshmi walks a razor’s edge. By day, she’s Kael’s unwilling concubine, dodging venomous harem rivals and his volatile temper. By night, she plots to reclaim her kingdom, using every weapon she has: her wit, her scars, and the unsettling truth that Kael’s cruelty hides a dark obsession with her past.
FL is strong pretending to be weak
ML dotes on her but a monster nevertheless.