Mara Ellery has spent most of her life believing her parents are gone and that some questions are better left unanswered.Then one night, she enters the Wychwood and discovers she is not as alone as she thought.Saved from a creature that should not exist by a mysterious stranger with storm-gray eyes, Mara meets Rowan Hale—a powerful, guarded man who seems to know far more about her than he should. He warns her to stay away from him, but the more Mara learns, the more impossible that becomes.When strange attacks begin closing in around her, Mara discovers that the silver crescent pendant her mother left her is tied to a secret older than Alderwick itself. Her parents did not simply disappear. They were protecting her from something that has finally found her.And Rowan knows exactly what that something is.Haunted by a beast he can barely control, Rowan has spent years keeping everyone at a distance. But Mara awakens something in him he cannot explain—and cannot seem to resist.As the secrets of her past unravel, Mara must decide who she can trust, including the man who keeps pushing her away while risking everything to protect her.Because the truth about Mara’s bloodline could change the fate of both humans and lycans.And the moon has been waiting for her to remember.Some secrets are buried for a reason.Some loves are written long before we find each other.