Tamed by Love

She was meant to be his punishment.
Instead, she became his weakness.

When the young king orders Lucien de Vierre to marry, it is not a reward.

It is a warning.

A punishment for becoming entangled with the wrong woman—the king’s own mistress, though Lucien had never known or cared who she truly belonged to.

Known across the kingdom as the Wolf—a feared nobleman with blood on his hands and rebellion in his past—Lucien has spent years avoiding court, avoiding loyalty, and avoiding love entirely.

Until Mariel.

Gentle, intelligent, and painfully aware of her place in the world, Mariel never imagined a man like Lucien would look at her twice under ordinary circumstances. Men like him married beautiful women from powerful families.

She enters the marriage expecting distance. Silence. Duty.

What she finds instead is a man more dangerous than the rumors.

A man who watches her too closely.
Protects her too fiercely.
Touches her like restraint is slowly killing him.

The longer they remain together, the harder it becomes to ignore the tension building between them…and the terrifying realization that Lucien de Vierre would burn kingdoms before allowing harm to reach her.

But court alliances are fragile, old enemies are circling, and Lucien carries secrets capable of destroying them both.

Because in a kingdom built on power, love is never the safest choice.

And the Wolf was never meant to fall first.