She was dressed in white and promised to another. He should have let her bleed. Neither of them knows yet what that one bite will cost — or who they will have to become to survive it. Talia Vey has spent her whole life learning how to bare her throat without flinching. As the daughter of Moonridge's most powerful wolf elder, she knows the rules by heart: marry the man chosen for you, keep your voice low, and never — never — let a vampire's mouth touch your skin. On the morning of her betrothal ceremony, the border alarms shatter everything. What begins as a desperate ride to save her cousin ends in silver nets, masked attackers, and a vampire prince who shouldn't be in these woods at all. Lucan Erevos kills the man who would have killed her. Then, wounded and pushed past the edge of control, he does something far worse. He bites her. But this bite doesn't weaken Talia. It wakes something ancient beneath her skin — a glowing sigil that Lucan has only ever seen carved on a sealed crypt door, beside a warning his mother gave him once in a whisper: If you ever see that mark again, run from the person wearing it. Or help her run faster. Now Talia is contaminated in the eyes of her pack, unfit for the betrothal that was supposed to seal an alliance, and carrying a bond no ritual can sever. Her father wants her controlled. Her betrothed calls her salvageable. The vampire king wants to lock her away and call it protection. And Lucan — the man who made the wound — is the only one who knows the truth of what she is. What follows is not a love story that erases the harm. It is a reckoning between two people shaped by systems that were never built for their survival — as they uncover buried laws, fractured bloodlines, and a centuries-old conspiracy that used women's bodies as mortar between warring kingdoms. Peace built on unwilling women was never peace. It was delayed violence. Talia doesn't want to be saved. She wants to be witnessed. And in a world where power is measured in who gets to choose, that might be the most dangerous thing she could ask for. Bitten by My Forbidden Mate is a sweeping paranormal romance for readers who want their forbidden bonds built on accountability, their heroines shaped by fury, and their love stories hard-earned enough to mean something.