Honestly don't look at the star rating because I did really like this book but there were just a few things that are holding it back from being one of those incredible reads for me.
Did I devour it and read it in a day? Yes
Would I read it again? Probably
Has this changed my perspective on Hazelwoods books after absolutely hating The Love Hypothesis? Yes

We follow Misery, a vampyre (truthfully I'm glad I listened to the audiobook and didn't have to look at that spelling because I am so confused) as she is reluctantly/semi reluctantly pushed into an arranged marriage with a Were Alpha in an alliance that is meant to keep the not quite peace between Vampyre's, Were's and humans. Along with navigating her new surroundings in enemy terriroty Misery is leveraging her arranged marriage to help get information about her best friend Serena who went missing before her wedding. She has to decide if she can trust her new husband and his pack after a lifetime of being disappointed by her own people all while political alliances are constantly changing. And of course, it wouldn't be an omegaverse arranged marriage without a little tension and romance.

I listened to the audiobook and overall enjoyed that experience. Sometimes I wasn't totally sold on the narrator, and it was confusing having two narrators sometimes when I'm not sure we even got an entire chapter in Lowe's POV, but I say that knowing I listened on Spotify and in previous books I've listened to on that platform chunks of chapters were either left out or skipped over so I'm not feeling super confident on that side of it. As far as content goes, it was entertaining, there was tension both romantically and interpersonally among many of the characters, there was intrigue and politics, and the supernatural element of vampyres and were's adds another layer to the book, one I often enjoy when I read romance books with a fantastical element to them. There is a lot I wish had been flushed out more, especially in terms of showcasing Lowe's POV towards Misery and in the main plotline of Serena's disappearance. By the end of the book it felt like the romance plot and everything else that had been laid out was struggling to take center stage, rather than clear A and B plotlines.
I am not super well versed in Omegaverse so I don't want to go too in depth on that front, Hazelwood did lay out her rules for the world pretty clearly as the book developed, but because Misery didn't understand a lot about Were culture I wish there had been a bit more explained to her and the audience instead of Lowe just screaming at her not to use Were words she didn't understand.
If there are more books following this one I will probably be reading them because you can pry witty, sexually charged, fantastical romance books from my cold dead hands.