King: New Astral Order: Tessa Bloom and Arenap Hatcher (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798277067956)

KING: NEW ASTRAL ORDER
Someone tried to murder his entire family. He survived to become King. Then fate finally gave him a mate-and she belonged to someone else.
Arenap Hatcher never wanted to become King this way. His family was supposed to rule beside him. Advise him. Annoy him. Help him build a future for their people.
Then someone tried to kill them all.
Arenap survived.
Now he wears a crown forged from betrayal and grief while rebuilding a fractured Astral Order and hunting whoever targeted his family. Love isn't even on the list.
Then he meets Tessa Bloom. And feels the Zing-the unmistakable connection between Vanguardian fated mates. For one impossible moment, Arenap thinks fate has finally given him something instead of taking it away.
Then he sees the ring.
His fated mate is married to someone else.
Of course she is.
Tessa's life isn't exactly going according to plan either.
Her marriage began as a practical arrangement between two people who hoped affection, partnership, and children would grow into a family. Instead, after three devastating miscarriages, the dream has crumbled. Her husband has turned away, her marriage exists mostly on paper, and Tessa is left wondering what she's supposed to do with a future that suddenly looks nothing like the one she planned.
Then her widowed mother falls in love and announces she's moving away.
Perfect.
No husband who seems to want her. No babies. Soon, no mother nearby. At this point, buying a yurt and disappearing into the wilderness is beginning to sound surprisingly reasonable.
Then she meets Arenap. The mysterious businessman is powerful, intimidating, infuriatingly attentive. And looking at her as though she's simultaneously the best and worst thing that's ever happened to him.
Tessa has no idea he's a King. She's never even heard of Vanguardians. She only knows there's something between them she can't explain.
A pull.
A connection.
A feeling that meeting him has changed everything.
Arenap knows exactly what it is. And he also knows Tessa is married. He may be King, but there are some lines even a king refuses to cross. So he keeps his distance. Or tries to.
Unfortunately, assassins, traitors, and a kingdom balanced on the edge of chaos have other plans.
As Arenap hunts whoever targeted his family, Tessa is drawn deeper into a hidden world of ancient bloodlines and dangerous secrets-and closer to the man who makes her wonder if the future she thought she'd lost might not be the only future available to her.
But the Zing doesn't make Tessa his.
Her choices are still her own.
Arenap can fight assassins. Expose traitors. Rebuild a kingdom.
But he won't claim a woman who isn't free to choose him.
And Tessa has choices of her own to make-about a marriage that has already broken her heart, the family she still desperately wants, and a man who is offering her something she stopped believing belonged to her.
Hope.
As the conspiracy against the Hatcher family closes in, Arenap and Tessa must decide whether two lives shattered by loss can become something neither of them dared imagine.
Arenap thought fate had screwed him over one more time.
Tessa thought her future was gone.
They may both be wrong.
KING: NEW ASTRAL ORDER is a slow-burn science-fiction/paranormal romance featuring a powerful King, an unavailable fated mate, forbidden love, yearning, protective hero, family dreams, starting over, duty versus desire, political intrigue, assassination and betrayal, the Zing, and a guaranteed HEA.
KING is a standalone romance in the interconnected Vanguardians series. Tessa and Arenap get their happily-ever-after, so you can begin here. Want the complete Vanguardian experience? Start with NOMAD: FORSAKEN LORIAN.

Author: Lily P. Archer
ISBN-13: 9798277067956
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2026
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d