She was never supposed to be the bride. Sera Ashveil was nineteen years old, invisible, and worth nothing to the pack that raised her. Her sister Mira is the beautiful one. The chosen one. The one their father actually looks at when he speaks.Sera is just the spare.So when the most feared Alpha in the known territories - Caius Dravhen, cursed, dangerous, and slowly being destroyed by dark magic - demands a bride from the Ashveil bloodline, the decision takes less than an hour.Mira refuses. Nobody asks Sera.She is dressed in her sister's gown before dawn, pushed into a black carriage, and delivered to a monster - a substitute for a bride nobody wanted to send, to a man nobody expects her to survive.The last woman sent to Caius Dravhen lost her mind within three days. Her eyes stayed open but everything behind them simply vanished.Sera arrives expecting the same fate.What she doesn't expect is that his curse - the dark magic consuming him from the inside out - doesn't break her. It wakes her. Something has been sleeping inside Sera Ashveil for nineteen years. Something old, something hungry, something that the Ashveil pack beat down so thoroughly they were certain it was dead.They were wrong. She came to Ironveil as a sacrifice. She will leave as something they never saw coming.

Life hasn’t been easy for Irene. Orphaned and barely scraping by as a café server in rainy Belfast, she’s used to surviving on her own. But when a mysterious, tall stranger walks into her café, everything changes. There’s something about him… the way he watches, the way he knows her without being told. And suddenly, Irene realizes that her quiet, predictable world may never be the same again. Will curiosity or caution win? And just how dangerous can obsession get?