The Dark Alpha Series

By Marileigh Crane

WARNING: The content below includes spoilers for “The Mountain” and related stories. Proceed with caution.

We lost before we knew we were at war. They took over silently while we went about our lives. Now, they rule over humans. They have made our planet anew to remind them of what they lost. They are the Sylphen, an ancient race that came to Earth through a rift between worlds. And they call their strongest the Alpha…

The Dark Alpha

Dominance is in their blood. Their power is not a choice. Alphas rule. Alphas protect. And woe to anyone who would cross them.

Warder was the first to cross the rift between the worlds. In the human lands, he hoped to master his grief – the loss of his first love, Lyric. But her murderer arrived on his heels. His own father, an Alpha among Alpha.

A powerful Alpha like Warder knows when not to fight. He chose to remove himself from his father’s influence, from the coming war, and from the memories that haunted him. Until a human omega turned his world upside down. Now, he will have to choose. Lead his people, or lose his mate.

Boss was not born to wield the Alpha’s power. He always knew that he was more dominant than other humans, a fact that made him an outcast. A problem. A criminal. The arrival of the Sylphen may spell doom for the rest of humankind, but for Boss, they are the dawning of a new world. One with a place for him in it. He is content as a human in their ranks. Until he meets Kit.

His obsession with the human woman is an inconvenience. One that might destroy the future he sees with the Sylphen. Because Boss’s reaction to Kit is more than obsession. He wants her to mate. A human omega like Kit is rare and desired. A human Alpha is an affront. Can Boss master his obsession? And, if not, can he master Kit?

Caius is an Alpha who does not mourn for his homeland. He knows that an Alpha makes his place wherever he lands. An Alpha must rule, but the Kingdom does not matter. As the human rebellion threatens, Caius relishes the opportunity to use his strategy as a Sylphen warrior to bring the humans to heel. Until Marlee.

Caius knows instantly that the human rebel is his mate. He also knows that to claim her would shatter her. Now, he fights a war on two fronts. A war for his people. And a war for her damaged heart.

The Human Omegas

When the rift between the human world and the land of the Sylphen abruptly closed, the Sylphen omegas were left behind. Mates, confidantes, peacemakers – the omega were the heart of their kind, the balance to the Alpha’s immense power. Only a mated pair can wield the Sylphen magic. And only an omega can be a true mate. The Sylphen thought the omega were truly lost. But in the shadow of the Alpha’s power, something is awakening among the humans.

There are theories for what gave rise to the human omega. Perhaps the power of the Alpha brought them into being. Perhaps the brave travelers to the human world were not truly the first. Or perhaps, there are those among the humans who have always been omega, dormant as they waited for their fated mates to travel between worlds.

Wherever they came from, their Alpha will claim them. Willing or not.