It has been centuries since Aithne has stepped on the land of marked. She has been an orphan who has nothing to lose, but being unknown to the books of shifters, her life was put at stake and so she makes herself inconspicuous, hiding all her life, away from the prying eyes of royals and shifters but is living under their noses. It was until she unintentionally came across her mate. Augustus Euvazguz Romania was the king of the alphas. The heir of West has been searching for his mate for centuries only to find her running on a spree. Far away from him. However, the alpha king deprived of mate will never be a good combination, he was thirsty for her and he had no intention of letting her slip from his fingers. And so the chase was on. Aithne, the legend of the forest will never get away from the infamous Lycan wolf of the West for she is 'The King's Mate'.