Lucien Duskbane is feared across the territories—an Alpha born of war, hardened by loss, and haunted by a blood curse no one can see. Every full moon chips away at his sanity, threatening to turn the leader of the Nightshade Pack into the very monster he once swore to destroy. Then she crosses into his land. No scent. No pack. No past and somehow… immune to his Alpha command. The girl is wrong in every way. Too quiet, too calm, too powerful in ways even she doesn’t understand but her presence silences the beast within him and that should terrify him. As enemies close in and buried truths begin to surface, Lucien must make a brutal choice; Protect the girl who could destroy him or let her go In a war shaped by blood experiments, broken bonds and a past that refuses to stay dead, one truth remains Some bonds are forged in fate. Others, in fire.