I was his Luna once. His mate. His destiny. At least, that is what I thought. But bringing Kaelan, my Alpha, my fate, into the cool daylight of the full moon, he looked me in the eye and picked another. I fell to pieces on him, to pieces in my possession, like rags to wringing inconsiderate modesty or silence. I walked away that night broken with a secret he would never know. My children. His heirs. Years passed. And I reared myself through my ashes, and I brought up my twins in the darkness, and nowhere near the talons of infidelity. And when I said to myself that I was finished with him, finished with love, finished with pain. But fate never forgets. Or does the Moon goddess as well? There is nothing to do, and when rogues strike and darkness spreads, I must go back. Not the weak coward Luna he rejected, but as a mother, as a battler, as the fulfilment of an ancient mystery older even than the packs themselves. And at my elbow are the twins of whom he had forgotten that they existed. Innocent. Powerful. Hunted. Now Kaelan wants me back. His fire is his old fire, his eyes are as pathetic as they used to be, and his breath in all its breaths blows my name. But is it possible that I shall forgive the Alpha who has left me at a moment when I needed him most? Enemies gather. Secrets unravel. Lineages grow out of darkness. And the friendship that unites us, weak, raging, and indescribable, is perhaps the only thing that will prevent salvation and doom. What will it be when the Alpha, who forgot me himself, becomes that which I cannot forget? Will my secret children aid us... or kill us both? And when his goddess moon herself summons me to make my choice, shall I stay his forgotten moon, the moon? Or have I made my claim to something more?

Lyra never belonged anywhere in her small town and was plagued by weird dreams of the forest and the full moon. One evening, as she walks home, she is being hunted in the woods by something that cannot be seen. She falls frightened into a clearing and finds herself in the face of a huge black wolf whose golden eyes stare at her. The creature does not attack, but submits itself. The wolf turns into a man: Darius, a strong and timid Alpha before she has time to digest it. His first word to her shatters her world — “Mate.” Lyra is forcibly initiated into the pack of Darius, and she discovers that real wolves do exist and she is the property of the most dreaded Alpha in the area. However, there is a black spot in his pack: each blood moon, one of his wolves gets killed, as though the victim of some unknown curse. Darius thinks that Lyra has the answer to stopping it, but she does not know how. Her presence is split into those who are friendly, and those who are hostile to the pack. Word of the human mate of the Alpha comes, and this attracts the interest of Darius's largest enemy, Alpha Draven, head of a rival pack. Draven is sure that killing Lyra will keep the curse alive and the pack of Darius will fall at last. Yet Draven has yet another agenda; he is aware that Lyra is not really all human and that he needs to take her power himself. Nightmares and whispers make Draven attempt to draw her off by promising to be free of the control of Darius. There are bizarre occurrences that encompass Lyra. When in danger, she releases snorting bursts of raw energy which a wolf should not possess. Her eyes shine unnaturally and scratches are cured with a touch of her hands. Progressively, Darius makes a slow realisation of the truth that Lyra is more than being his mate, she is also a member of a bloodline that has been connected to the original curse. It is her life that created the war between the packs- and it could be her who will be able to stop the cycle. Blood moon is approaching and Lyra is to choose where to be. The urge to stay with the mate bond tries to pull her, yet she will only get closer to Darius. Questioned with the freedom and destiny, she has to learn how to limit her power before Draven destroys everything. During the last clash under the crimson moon, truths will be exposed, lives will be lost, and Lyra will learn whether being the mate to Darius is a curse or the key to redeeming them all.