The game begins. The stakes are higher. And the truth is finally coming to light.

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I joined the televised mating show A Game of Heart’s Desire for one reason—to lure my enemies into the open. If the Resistance wants me dead, they’ll have to come through me first.

 

Alpha Agnus named me the next Alpha Queen. But power comes with a price: I must choose a mate. Fine. I’ll play the game the way I play everything else—with strategy. I’m a successful business owner, after all. Finding a mate can’t be that different from negotiating a partnership.

 

Except the men competing for me aren’t strangers. They’re ghosts from my past.

 

Once, when I was the injured shy girl everyone overlooked, I gave them my heart. Now I’m something else entirely—a powerful Alpha Queen who doesn’t need anyone. Or so I keep telling myself.

 

As the cameras roll and suitor after suitor steps forward, old memories refuse to stay buried. 

 

Past loves resurface. Old wounds reopen. And the line between allies and enemies begins to blur. Because the deeper I dig into the Resistance, the more I realize the truth is far more dangerous than I ever imagined.

 

Betrayals may not be what they seemed. Enemies may be closer than I thought.

 

And when the game ends, I’ll have to decide who I can trust…

with my crown, my life—

and maybe even my heart.

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