On the night the moon marks her as his fated mate, Lyra Ashwood watches the Alpha she loves stand before the entire pack and reject her without explanation, shattering the bond and her heart in the same breath. What she doesn’t know is that his rejection was never about hatred at all, it was the only way he knew to keep her alive after receiving a threat that her survival would come at the cost of everything he’d sworn to protect.But Lyra carries a secret even she doesn’t understand: blood belonging to a bloodline the world believed extinct centuries ago, a power ancient enough to have once nearly destroyed everything. As her abilities begin awakening in ways neither she nor anyone else can control, old enemies emerge from the shadows to claim what she carries and the only person capable of anchoring her through what’s coming is the very Alpha who broke her heart to save her life.Forced back into each other’s orbit by forces far older than either of them, Lyra and Kael must decide whether the love they buried under fear and duty is worth resurrecting even as ancient powers converge to decide whether her survival will save their world, or finally end it.