He needs her to claim the realm that should have always been his.

Jules
I always wanted to belong, but I never meant to belong to him.
Bartending in a dive across the river from the city isn't all it's cracked up to be. One night, after a scuffle with rowdy customers, a stranger named Alaric steps in.
He's no ordinary man—dangerously beautiful and skilled in combat. After saving me, he asks a simple question.
Are you alone in the world?
I answer honestly, but it's a mistake.
Alaric kidnaps me to another realm, where I'm the only human and prey in a harsh, unforgiving world.
He needs me as his mate to claim his destiny, and I'm powerless to resist. His charms are impossible to fight, and as long as I stay loyal, I'll be safe.
But how can I stay with someone whose hunger for power outweighs his need for me?

Alaric
Claiming the throne of Nightfall was always my destiny.
But to do it, I need a mate.
Willing or not.
Jules is human, but the blood in her veins calls to mine like no other. She's the key to my crown, the only one who can anchor my power and secure my claim. I didn't expect to crave her the way I do.
Her fire. Her stubbornness. Her softness that hides a strength I never saw coming.
I brought her here to use her. To bind her to me with ancient rites and magic older than the realm itself.
But now? Now I would burn kingdoms to keep her.
The realm needs a ruler. But my heart has already chosen a queen.