Elena Hart was never supposed to be a bride. She was the leftover daughter, the one who scrubbed floors while her stepsister wore silk. But when Vivian runs away on her own wedding day, Elena is dragged to the altar in her place to marry Alpha Damian Cross, the coldest wolf in the north. Damian wanted Vivian. He got a stranger instead, and he does not hide his disgust. Elena endures his silence, his rejection, and a pack that calls her the human reject behind her back. She does not know why her skin burns under moonlight, or why her eyes sometimes catch fire in the dark. She only knows that the husband who despises her is starting to notice the wrong things at the wrong time, right as his first love returns to claim the bond he once swore was fate. When the truth about Elena's blood finally rises with the blood moon, it will not just break her marriage. It will break the whole pack's understanding of who really holds the power. Damian rejected a nobody. He is about to find out he cast aside a queen, and queens do not beg to be loved twice.