Claimed by the Alpha's Mate: An Ashveil Realm Novel

By Veyra Thornwyck

The bond snapped into place the second he caught her scent. Now they have three days to prove it's real - or lose it forever.

Mira didn't come to the Duskmere border for a mate. She came chasing the only lead she has on her missing sister - a thin, secondhand report that's led her to the one alpha with the patience to tolerate a scholar's questions. She doesn't expect the mark that burns into her throat the moment Alpha Kade catches her scent across a crowded hall.

In Duskmere, an unsealed mark isn't a private matter. Pack law gives it three days before it can be formally challenged - and Kade's oldest rival has been waiting years for an opening exactly like this one.

Kade has spent a decade making sure nothing about him is worth taking, because the one time it was, it nearly cost him everything. Now he has seventy-two hours to prove a bond neither of them asked for, against a man who's finally found the one thing that might let him collect an old debt - and a scholar who was never planning on becoming anyone's evidence.

Tropes:

Fated matesTicking-clock / marked-and-claimedRival alpha / pack-law intrigueInstalove with a procedural twistBluestocking heroine, alpha heroHEA guaranteed

Book 3 of the Ashveil Realm - standalone HEA, no cliffhanger.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDLTLMV9
• ISBN13: 9798191713175
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"