Tangled Prince

They call him half-caste, and a mistake. For nineteen years, Kael has been beaten, starved, and forced to clean the twenty-foot stone statue in the royal courtyard; the cursed body of the last Blue Lycan King, murdered twenty years ago with the Magical Alpha Dagger still beating in his stone heart. His crime? His eyes were unusually blue in a kingdom of Black Wolves where pure blood means black eyes, which made him an abomination. What they don't know is that those eyes are royal. Twenty years ago, Alpha Moros Black slaughtered the Blue Lycans; the true rulers blessed by the Moon Goddess, and tried to wipe out their bloodline but he failed. One baby was shielded by his mother and smuggled out by the High Seer, whose family swore an oath to always protect the Blue Lycans. That baby is Kael. The last male Blue Lycan. The only one whose blood can pull the real dagger from his grandfather's stone heart. The Alpha on the throne holds a fake. The only light in his hell is Elara, the present Seer's daughter. Since they were children she has had a crush on him, secretly healing his wounds behind the statue with a forbidden gold touch that burns her every time. But Elara is hiding something too. She is half Seer, half Blue Lycan; the illegitimate bloodline of a Blue Lycan Prince who fell in love with a High Seer. The last female. She doesn't know. When the false Alpha sets a contest as a trap; whoever pulls the dagger from the Stone King will be the next Alpha, every warrior in the kingdom tries and fails while laughing at the half-caste. Until Kael steps up...

Duke Maxwell died in the arms of Liora, his abandoned wife, the woman who had loved him more than anyone else. He never realized how deeply misunderstandings had poisoned their relationship after he brought Consort Shera into his life. Shera had planted poison in his blood with the same cunning she had once used to sow hatred between Duke Maxwell and his devoted wife, Liora. In the final moments of his life, Maxwell remembered neither his power nor his pride. All he could see were Liora's tears falling onto the floor, mixing with snow, blood, and the blazing embers around them. Their child was born and died in an animal shed. Even so, Liora used the last of her strength and the boundless love she still carried for Maxwell to shield his dying body from a burning beam. Together, they drew their final breaths as the flames consumed the entire Maxwell family castle. Yet fate gave Maxwell one more chance. Time turned back three years before his death, A chance to atone for his sins, destroy the betrayal that had ruined everything, and perhaps... love Liora the way he should have from the beginning. But this request could only be granted once, and Maxwell would have to seek revenge while possessing only the limited authority granted to him as a Duke of the Empire. There was also a price for the wish he had made. He could not change fate itself. Would this second chance finally bring Maxwell happiness, or would everything become even more complicated when the Crown Prince set his eyes on Liora's beauty? And what role had the Emperor played in the former death of Maxwell, the loyal Duke who had faithfully served the throne for generations?