RECLAIMED BY THE CROWNLESS KING He rejected her in front of the entire pack. The most feared king in the North found her dying in the snow. Now her ex-mate wants her back—but the crownless king refuses to let her go. For eighteen years, Aria Thorne has known exactly where she stands in Ravencrest Pack. At the bottom. Born without a wolf and treated as a useless Omega, she has spent her entire life enduring whispers, cruelty, and humiliation. She never expected her fate to change. Until the Grand Mating Ball. When Alpha Jax Thorne discovers that Aria is his fated mate, her heart finally dares to hope. But Jax doesn't choose her. In front of the entire pack, he rejects Aria and chooses Victoria—the beautiful, powerful woman he believes is worthy of standing beside him. Then he brands Aria an Outcast and banishes her into the Ashen Wilds. Alone, heartbroken, and bleeding in the snow, Aria believes she has lost everything. She is wrong. Her blood awakens something ancient. Something powerful. Something that has been sleeping inside her for eighteen years. And its awakening draws the attention of the one man every wolf fears. King Lucian Vance. The crownless Lycan King is ruthless, feared, and untouched by the bonds that control other wolves. He has no interest in love, mates, or the promises of the Moon Goddess. Until he finds Aria dying in his territory. The moment he catches her scent, years of carefully controlled indifference begin to crack. She is his mate. But Lucian soon realizes Aria is not the powerless Omega everyone believed her to be. There is something different about her. Something connected to an ancient power that could threaten the balance between wolves and Lycans—and make Aria the target of those who will do anything to possess it. As Aria begins uncovering the truth about her bloodline, she is forced to question everything she has ever believed about her family, her pack, and the rejection that nearly destroyed her. Meanwhile, Jax begins to understand what he threw away. The woman he humiliated is no longer begging for his acceptance. She is becoming stronger. More dangerous. And she is standing beside a king. Desperate to reclaim the mate he once rejected, Jax refuses to accept that Aria has moved on. But getting her back means challenging the most powerful man in the North. And Lucian has no intention of surrendering her. The longer he stays beside Aria, the more fiercely he wants to protect her. The more he learns about her past, the more determined he becomes to uncover the truth. And the more he falls for her, the more dangerous the consequences become. Aria entered the Ashen Wilds believing she was nothing. She will not leave them that way. But before she can claim her place beside the crownless king, she must uncover the secret hidden within her blood—and survive the people who will kill to keep it buried. He rejected her when she was powerless. He found her when she was broken. Now the crownless king will burn the world down before he lets anyone take his mate away.