She signed a contract to play his mate for sixty days. She didn't know she'd never want to leave.

Nayeli Voss builds impossible families for other people — paranormal surrogacy contracts, cross-species custody agreements, bonds the human legal system refuses to recognize. She's brilliant at it. She's never had one herself. When a lawsuit threatens to destroy everything she's spent five years building, a dangerous proposition lands on her desk: step into the role of pregnant mate to Kazimir Volkov, Alpha King of five pack nations, for sixty days. Sign the contract. Accept the Claim Mark. Walk away with two million dollars and her firm intact.

It should be simple. It should be temporary. It should be the most professionally airtight transaction of her career.

It is none of those things.

Kazimir doesn't just need a decoy — he needs an heir, and he's chosen Nayeli with terrifying precision. The possessive alpha mate bond is more ancient and more binding than any contract she's ever drafted. The secret baby growing in her womb ties her to the lycan king's world in ways no termination clause can undo. And somewhere between the ritual chamber and the Elder Circle's war room, the dark werewolf romance she told herself wasn't real becomes the only thing she can't negotiate her way out of.

When enemies use her as leverage and the paranormal world's most powerful governing body demands the truth, Kazimir must choose: protect the lie that keeps him on the throne, or confess everything — including that he fell in love with the woman he manipulated into carrying his child.

Spicy dark werewolf romance. A possessive alpha male who schemes his way into forever. A human heroine who out-lawyers an entire paranormal kingdom. A secret baby neither of them planned — and both of them choose.