Dr. Isabella Cross thought saving a wounded stranger in a dark alley was simply the right thing to do. She never expected that an act of mercy would become her prison. The man she rescued is Damien Blackwood—ruthless heir to one of the world's most feared criminal empires. Cold, calculating, and scarred by a childhood steeped in violence, Damien operates by a single rule: take what you want and never let it go. The moment Isabella enters his world, he decides she will never leave it. Trapped in his fortress-like estate, Isabella discovers that Damien's obsession runs deeper than possession. Behind his iron control lies a man shattered by tragedy—a boy who couldn't save his mother from madness, a brother who failed to protect his sister from his father's enemies. In Isabella's defiance, he sees both penance and redemption. But as Isabella is pulled into a world of family vendettas, power struggles, and deadly secrets, she begins to see past the monster to the broken man beneath. Damien's enemies are closing in, and the very qualities that make Isabella his captive—her compassion, her strength, her refusal to break—may be the only things that can save them both. In a world where love is weaponized and trust is fatal, Isabella must decide: escape the darkness or become its queen.

Hart Santino's ordinary life as a museum curator ends when he uncovers an ancient wolf totem that marks him as the fated mate of Cole Haanshil, the most powerful Alpha in existence. But Cole's exiled brother Liam has already claimed Hart through dark magic, igniting a war that might consume all werewolf packs because it's dangerous and forbidden. As Hart discovers he's the key to the ancient prophecy that might break the forbidden and maybe make the war less deadly, he must choose between the safe human world he knows and a dangerous supernatural destiny that could save or exterminate the supernatural world.