Moon-Tithe

In a world where the moon's blood binds wolves and vampires in a century-old truce, Thorne Blackwood — alpha-heir of the Blackwood pack — discovers his fated mate is the very enemy meant to secure it. Vesper Nocturne arrives as a political hostage, cloaked in gothic lace and the scent of night-bloomed sorrow, and Thorne's wolf howls for the vampire prince as if the moon itself has gone mad. Pack law offers no mercy: Thorne must publicly reject the bond or ignite a war. Vesper must endure the humiliation to protect his coven's crumbling honor. The rejection ceremony is performed — but the bond doesn't fully sever, leaving both with phantom pain and an unbreakable pull they can't explain. Then they uncover the truth. The blood-oath that established the truce was forged — a conspiracy engineered by a cabal of rogue elders from both species, wolves and vampires working in secret toward mutual annihilation. Their mate-bond was never an accident. It was the spark designed to trigger the final massacre. Forced into a forbidden alliance, Thorne and Vesper navigate the razor-edge between pack loyalty and the pull that shatters every vow. Their clandestine investigation unearths the moon-tithe — an ancient ritual capable of severing both species from their supernatural power. As allies fall to betrayal and traitors rise from the shadows, they discover the only way to stop extinction is to complete the bond they were forced to break. Caught between the families that raised them and the love that could save them, Thorne and Vesper must choose: become the weapons of ancestral hatred, or rewrite the covenant itself by claiming each other — a choice that could unite two warring species or drown the world in the blood of both.