The city of Elaris is a place of uneasy peace — where witches whisper behind blackened glass, werewolves prowl beneath fractured moons, and vampires rule from the shadows of cathedral spires. Four territories, four fragile truces, bound together by old blood and older lies. But prophecy is a fickle thing. When Lillian Vale, a seemingly ordinary young woman, is marked by the Veil — the barrier that separates the living from the forsaken — the balance begins to crumble. The factions stir. The wolves grow restless. The vampires scent destiny on the air. And deep within the ruins of the old world, the fae watch in silence, knowing what the others have forgotten: that the girl’s blood is the key. Reese, Alpha of the Eastern Pack, is the first to find her — and the first to fear her. Bound to her by an ancient mate-bond he never sought, he’s torn between protecting her and rejecting her, between instinct and command. But as enemies close in, denial turns to obsession, and the beast inside him begins to recognize something older than fate. The witches want her power. The vampires want her dead. The wolves want her safe — or so they claim. And somewhere beyond the mortal world, a voice whispers from the shadows of the Veil: > “When the moon bleeds and the sun weeps, the bound shall awaken, and the forgotten will rise again.”