The Mute Bride of the Wolf King

A mute heiress is handed over as a substitute bride to the Alpha King, a man whose reputation keeps others at a distance. She enters the arrangement without a voice and without a choice, carrying a silver pen as her means of speaking to a world that has decided she has nothing to say. The forced marriage becomes the stage for a central conflict: a mate mark that carries danger, and a voice that can command wolves but demands a price each time it is used. What begins as a transaction between strangers turns into a public reckoning, as the bride who was meant to be silent finds ways to answer back.