Artaius Alpha

He shattered their bond. Now their son is paying the price.

Isla Russo has spent five years in hiding, a ghost in the human world. Her secret is twofold: she is a rare Omega, and she is the mother of a son whose existence would ignite a war. Now, her carefully constructed world is collapsing. Her son is dying from a mysterious supernatural illness that no mundane medicine can cure, and the powerful suppressants that hide them are beginning to fail. Her only hope is a place she swore never to return to: Aethelgard Academy, and its world-renowned supernatural medical center.

Returning means facing him. Ronan Ellis. The powerful, brooding Alpha of the bear shifters. The man who publicly rejected her. The fated mate who broke her heart and forced her to flee. And the unknowing father of her dying child. Ronan makes it brutally clear that she is not welcome, his cold cruelty a constant reminder of her past humiliation. He is an obstacle she cannot avoid, a monster guarding the only path to her son’s salvation.

But when a confrontation spirals out of control, the stress causes Isla’s suppressants to fail completely. The raw power of her Omega scent, combined with Ronan’s proximity, triggers an accidental psychic bond between them. Suddenly, Isla is slammed with the one secret he has kept for five years: his agonizing, soul-deep regret. The bond reveals that his rejection was a lie, a desperate act to protect her from a threat she never knew existed.

Now, Isla is trapped in an impossible situation. The psychic link reveals that her son’s illness is a direct result of their broken bond, and the only cure is the one thing she swore she would never accept: a true, permanent mating ritual. To save her son, she must learn to trust the bully who shattered her world and surrender to the man whose soul is now an open wound in her own mind.

Artaius Alpha is a full-length, standalone second-chance shifter romance set in the Aethelgard Academy universe. Intended for mature audiences, this novel features a possessive Alpha hero haunted by his past, a resilient Omega heroine fighting for her son, and a dark, emotional, high-heat journey to a hard-won happy ending.