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Luna by Contract: The Alpha Chose Politics Over Her Heart

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Riley Hayes was supposed to marry for love. Instead, she's being forced into a contract marriage with a man she barely knows to stop a war that his pack started. Magnus Crane, Alpha of Shadowpine, is cold, distant, and absolutely the last wolf she would ever choose. He's known for crushing his enemies and never showing weakness. He doesn't do love. He doesn't do feelings. He does strategy and control. The contract is simple: one year. Live together. Pretend to be mates. Keep the peace. Then she can walk away with her pack's safety guaranteed. Riley can survive one year of pretending. She's survived worse. Or at least, that's what she tells herself. What she doesn't expect is the way Magnus looks at her when he thinks she's sleeping. What she doesn't expect is how his hand finds hers in dark moments. What she doesn't expect is that beneath his ice-cold exterior is a man drowning in guilt, carrying the weight of every choice he's made as Alpha, searching for something real in a life built entirely on strategy. As Riley settles into pack life, she discovers Magnus didn't start the war for power like everyone believes. He was defending against an enemy threat that nobody knows about. His reputation was ruined to keep the pack safe. He's a hero everyone thinks is a villain. And that changes everything. But secrets have a shelf life. When the truth about why the war started gets exposed to the Council, it destroys the fragile peace. Magnus is forced to choose between protecting his pack or protecting Riley. Between honor and love. Between the Alpha she thought he was and the man she's fallen for. Riley has to decide if she can forgive him for keeping secrets. And Magnus has to figure out how to be vulnerable enough to keep her. Because if they can't trust each other, the real war will begin. And this time, nobody will survive it.
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