Faking his death to claim both the Duchy and his low-born mate, Alpha Kael swaps places with his dead Beta twin. But at the sacred moon altar, Royal Princess Elara feels the scholar’s seal on the corpse’s claws—not her husband’s warrior mark. Instantly seeing through the farce, Elara weaponizes a Royal Lycan pregnancy to crush his Dual Bond Oath, starves his pack's budget, and unleashes a rogue Omega to tear his bed chamber apart. Driven mad by lust and power, Kael poisons her newborn pup to clear the bloodline. At the Frost Moon Ceremony, Elara exposes the rogue Alpha before the assembled High Packs. The Emperor strips Kael of his Lycan blood and exiles him, while his mistress drinks Moonleaf Poison. Holding the wolf-bone scepter, Elara crowns her pup the new Alpha Duke.
