A War of Hearts and Fate
Book One of the Fated, Cursed, and Claimed series · N. E. Henderson
He claimed his fated mate under a blood moon. By morning he'd thrown her off his land.
Kate doesn't believe her brother is dead. The only proof anyone will give her is an urn sitting on her father's dining room table like a centerpiece, so she steals it and rides nine hundred miles into enemy territory, straight to the one alpha who can tell her whose ashes are really inside.
Kane Orion has spent twenty years searching for the mate stolen from his pack as a child. He knows exactly who he belongs to. So when the blood moon rises and his wolf claims his enemy's daughter, he tells himself she has the wrong fur, the wrong eyes, the wrong name.
Then he casts her out, and three hours later finds out exactly who he threw away.
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- Couple
- Kate Everhart & Kane Orion
- Type
- Wolf shifters, fated mates
- POV
- Dual, first person present tense
- Length
- 46 chapters plus an epilogue
- Ending
- Happily ever after, no cliffhanger
- Spice
- 4 out of 5
- Formats
- Ebook in Kindle Unlimited · paperback, hardback and audiobook, wide
- Series
- Book 1 of Fated, Cursed, and Claimed
- Published
- 2024 · ebook, paperback, hardback, audiobook
Tropes
- fated mates
- rejected mate
- enemies to lovers
- blood moon claim
- grovel
- secret identity
- two-person love triangle
- alpha hero
- touch her and die
- found family
- dual POV
- HEA
Content warnings. Child abuse and poisoning in flashback, physical abuse, a
claiming that happens without clear consent, kidnapping, on-page violence and death, referenced
sexual assault of a secondary character (never depicted), pregnancy, and explicit sexual content.
Adults only.
Questions readers ask
- Is this a rejected mate romance?
- Yes, and a thorough one. Kane claims Kate under a blood moon, wakes up the next morning convinced she deceived him, and throws her off his land. The rest of the book is him earning his way back. If the grovel is why you read this trope, that's the spine of this book.
- Can I read it as a standalone?
- Yes. It's book one of the series and it tells a complete story that ends in a happily ever after.
- Is it dual POV?
- Yes, alternating between Kate and Kane in first person present tense.
- Is there a cliffhanger?
- Not on the romance. Kate and Kane's story resolves. The final chapter opens a thread that carries into book two, A Cage of Blood and Light.
- How spicy is it?
- A 4 out of 5. The sex is explicit and on the page, there is a fair amount of it, and it matters to the story rather than being decorative.
- What should I read next?
- Book two, A Cage of Blood and Light, follows a human woman and the first vampire ever made. If you want more of this trope from other authors, see rejected mate romances where the alpha has to grovel.