The Wolf King by Lauren Palphreyman

When a Princess is Kidnapped by an Alpha
Book 1 in the Wolves of the North Saga

She was meant to marry a prince.
He was meant to die in the dirt.

Princess Aurora has spent her life behind castle walls—watched, controlled, and promised to a man she does not love. On the eve of her arranged marriage, she slips into the shadows of a brutal dog fight, where captured werewolves are forced to battle for human entertainment. When she defies the crowd and saves a young wolf’s life, she draws the attention of the one creature she should fear most: the ruthless alpha who was moments away from killing him.

His gaze seals her fate.

That same night, the alpha escapes his captors… and takes Aurora with him. Dragged across the border into the harsh, untamed lands of the North, she discovers a world where fractured wolf clans are uniting under a single banner. A world where she—human, royal, and forbidden—might be the key to ending the war between their peoples.

But as danger closes in from every side, something else begins to take shape between them. Something as undeniable as it is forbidden. Aurora learns that the wolves she feared are not the monsters she was raised to hate, and the alpha begins to see that protecting her may cost him everything—even the loyalty of those he once called family.

With enemies rising, war raging, and passion burning hotter than either of them can control, Aurora must face the ultimate question:

Is home still the castle she left behind…
or the wolf who stole her freedom?

✨ Tropes: enemies to lovers, kidnapped princess, forbidden romance, fated pull, human x alpha wolf, war-torn world, protective alpha
✨ For fans of: The Folk of the Air, The Wolf and the Woodsman, King of Battle and Blood
✨ Book 1 in the Wolves of the North Saga — a fierce, emotionally charged romantasy where loyalty is tested, prejudice is shattered, and love grows in the ashes of war
✨ Features a defiant princess desperate for freedom, a fierce alpha who finds himself torn between duty and desire, rival clans on the brink of uniting, and a world where the lines between monster and man blur with every choice they make

"He stole her away. She never expected him to steal her heart."