She was an undocumented water-witch hiding behind a sterile hospital mask. He was the continent's most feared Lycan warlord—and her bleeding patient. When pariah trauma nurse Nora Kendrick accidentally brushes against the raw, silver-poisoned wounds of Alpha Hector Drake, the instantaneous snap of an ancient fated-mate bond shatters her scent camouflage completely. Framed for high corporate treason by her former pack tyrant, Nora is dragged into the high-security volcanic monolith of Sector 4. Behind the unyielding spine of the Sovereign Executioner, her clinical survival training turns into a lethal domestic war of wits. Pinned behind his velvet partition lines as an active multi-pack border conflict rages outside, Nora must protect the hidden successor forming within her core. Can a rogue witch survive the protective quarantine of a predator who has openly rejecte