Brenda Bingham is a prisoner of her father’s estate, bound by expectation and duty. But when a fateful encounter in the forbidden woods brings her face to face with a creature who is a terrifying and oddly familiar sight, her world starts to crumble. Her father has betrothed her to the monstrous Duke of Wolfsbane — a man whose wives simply disappear — but Brenda will not go quietly. But when dark secrets are revealed and the call of an ancient bond pulls at her, she must decide — obey and be caged, or fight for a destiny she never knew existed. But more than her freedom is at stake — for the beast in the woods is watching, and he has already claimed her as his.