Broken Engagement, True Identity

Everyone expected Talia Keller to return home as the desperate, discarded heiress, begging for an arranged marriage with the elite Alpha Alaric Fraser to save her family’s legacy. When Alaric’s mistress publicly extorts her and Alaric himself issues a cold, public rejection, the crowd waits for Talia to crumble in shame. They think she’s a powerless underdog they can blacklist with a single phone call. But they made one fatal mistake: they confused "heiress" with "prey." They didn’t realize the woman they just humiliated is a high-ranking Special Forces Commander with Washington's military backing and the authority to seize the very trade routes that keep the Fraser empire alive. Talia isn't here to win back a fiancé; she’s here to signal her soldiers. The "rejected" fiancée isn't going away quietly—she’s staying to watch their entire legacy burn to the ground.