A Fighter Not a Lover

By: C. M. Fahnlander

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She was meant to be a pawn.
He was determined to remain heartless.
Neither expected love to be the thing that destroyed them both.

Persephone, the half-human, half-Lycan daughter of Lord Howard, has spent her life caught between two worlds—never fully belonging to either. When her ambitious stepmother demands she be married off to secure advantageous alliances, Persephone’s fate is sealed in a binding meant to unite two powerful manors.

Lord Winsted of Ravensthorpe never wanted a wife—only an heir. Cold, calculating, and feared by his own people, he agrees to the bond for power alone, vowing never to love the woman forced into his life. Persephone is brought to Ravensthorpe as nothing more than a means to an end… or so he believes.

But where Winsted has ruled through distance and control, Persephone rules hearts without trying. The villagers, servants, and soldiers quickly fall under her gentle strength and quiet compassion. As resentment brews within Winsted’s own family, danger begins to close in from within the manor walls.

When betrayal turns violent, Winsted is forced to confront the truth he has long denied. To save her, he must risk everything—his title, his lands, and the future he has fought so hard to secure.

And Persephone must decide whether love is worth returning to a life she was never meant to live… or if freedom lies beyond the bond that once imprisoned her.