Survival in the wild is easy. Resisting the woman who adores you while trapped together for three weeks is the real test.

Accalia is no longer the girl who snuck into the barracks. She has tasted freedom, felt desire, and now carries a guilt she can't name — because her heart isn't choosing one man. It's choosing all of them. And in Rome, that makes her something unspeakable.

Wolf-Pack member, Asterius, hides behind the mask of a Greek god — charming, predatory, untouchable. He was flayed by words as a child and learned that performance is safer than sincerity. Sex is release. Connection is a trap. He knows exactly what he is.

Then three weeks on a Sardinian shore with Accalia dismantles everything he's built. The more he wants her, the more unsuitable she becomes for the life Rome demands of her. And the more she wants him, the closer her arranged marriage feels to a death sentence.

He could take what she's offering. Instead he does the hardest thing a man like him has ever done — he protects her future at the cost of his own need.

A showman learning sincerity. A woman discovering her own hunger. And a love that makes the life she's supposed to live feel like a cage.

Romance where love is the hardest choice — and the most necessary one.

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