{"product_id":"defiant-9781951714246","title":"Defiant","description":"From USA Today Bestselling Author, Ann Denton, comes a dark romance about the battle of wills between a dominant pack leader and a woman whose compliant wolf undermines every dream she's ever had. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn shifter life, what's more important? Your human mind? Or your wolf's?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eElena\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen my wolf appears for the first time, I'm so overjoyed that I don't think, I just run into the forest...and smack into Black Maddox, the leader of my pack. Only...he doesn't believe that I'm what I say I am. He insists that I'm part of a rival pack and locks me up in his basement.\u003cbr\u003eBlack's twice my age, insanely powerful, and has a streak of darkness running through him a mile wide and an ocean deep.\u003cbr\u003eHe's exactly the type of man that I always swore I'd stay far away from. I should stick with Jonah, the beta I know and trust, the man who'll give me everything I ask for.\u003cbr\u003eBut what if there are things I didn't know I ever wanted before? Things I don't know how to ask for?\u003cbr\u003eThe shadow Black casts drenches me, his depravity soaking into my skin.\u003cbr\u003eHe's going to destroy me if I don't escape him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlack\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI discover pretty little Elena helpless in disputed territory.\u003cbr\u003eAt first, I want to crack her open, this wide-eyed temptation who derails me. I want to shatter her and those who sent her into tiny pieces. I will not be manipulated or deceived by her false innocence.\u003cbr\u003eThat's what I tell myself. But even as I say it aloud, my obsession grows and the spell she weaves leaves my wolf and I both panting.\u003cbr\u003eBut once I realize Elena's a special type of shifter, the rarest of the rare, and the most precious of them all... I don't want to crush her. I want to chain and keep her. I want to make her beg for mercy, but not because she's broken.\u003cbr\u003eBecause she's mine.\u003cbr\u003eI want her desperate and aching for me in ways she's never been before.\u003cbr\u003eMy wolf and I will claim her, mark her, marry her and keep her.\u003cbr\u003eOnly one thing's stopping me.\u003cbr\u003eThe entire shifter world wants her too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAuthor's Note: This is a dark m?nage romance. Please read the author's note at the beginning of this book before you dive in.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Le Rue Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50902195044626,"sku":"9781951714246","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f527700-8062-4749-9d28-6c11d95e90e4.jpg?v=1738449130","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/defiant-9781951714246","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}