My Second Chance Mate Is The Enemy King

Yara Winslow pilots the only ferry on the Salmon Bend, a muddy, loud, honest job. She does it because it keeps her away from the pack hall where her first mate, Fabian Keene, rejected her in front of everyone and then married someone else. The cut never healed. For years she has told everyone she is fine.

Her pack is losing a war. King Rhoan Valcourt, Lycan ruler of the Highmark Crown, holds the gorge road, the only way out of the valley. Everyone says he is cold and merciless. Everyone says he let his own sister die at the border to teach the valley a lesson.

When Alpha Leofric Keene calls a truce, Yara is the only pilot who can take the king's party across the flooded river. Then the king steps onto her deck, and her old rejection scar lights like a coal. Wolves are told they get one mate. Rhoan Valcourt is her second, and he has known it for the length of the river.

Rhoan could end the war by claiming her, or tear the valley apart if he does it wrong. He asks her for the one thing the Crown never gives. He asks for time. Yara is sent to live at the Crown fort as a guest of the truce, and her own Alpha asks her to listen and report. The more she hears from the king's side of the river, the less any of it adds up: a forged letter, a border stone that was moved, a dead girl whose body no one ever saw.

Underneath all of it is an old dam, a ferry charter with a key that belongs to Yara by blood, and a secret her own grandfather has kept for a year. When the truth comes out it breaks the valley open. Two packs who have hated each other for years must share one flooded gorge, and the woman who once feared her own scar becomes the one person both sides will follow.