For generations, the people of Oakhaven have lived by one law: never cross theperimeter into the Blackwood, and never show mercy to the beasts that howl within it.Elara has always been the perfect daughter of the village, until the night she finds amonster dying in the dirt.Kaelen is not just a beast. He is a man trapped in a nightmare of silver and fur, huntedby the very elders Elara has been taught to obey. When she chooses to patch hiswounds instead of calling the hunt, she triggers an ancient blood-debt that threatens toburn Oakhaven to the ground.As the Blood Moon rises, the line between protector and predator blurs. Elara mustdecide if she is willing to become an outcast to save the creature who has captured hersoul, or if the price of defying the Ancient Law is more than she can pay.In the Blackwood, love isn't just forbidden—it's a death sentence.