SYNOPSIS Two girls are born on the same day at the same hour. One is the Moon Goddess, the divine blessing the wolf kingdom has waited five hundred years for. The other is the Curse Beast, the prophecy of destruction. Nobody will know which is which until the night they turn twenty and shift for the first time. For twenty years the entire kingdom of Ironmere believes Alpha Dray's daughter Celene is the goddess. She is worshipped, desired, and adored. Nyla Croft, born the same hour in the same kingdom, is an omega palace servant. She sweeps floors and lowers her eyes and applies a witch charm every morning before she steps outside so nobody ever feels the power she carries. On their twentieth birthday, Nyla shifts golden. Celene shifts black. The Alpha covers it up immediately. He had a plan prepared and Tarek Voss, the heir to the most powerful alpha seat in the Seven Packs, the man who conducted a secret months-long affair with Nyla and promised to take her away after her birthday, stands in the ceremony ground and tells her she deserves to die. What he never told anyone was what he put in the drink he gave her the night before. He obtained a suppressant from a dark practitioner to weaken her shift and keep her manageable. It did the opposite. It stripped the charm she wore every day and woke up everything she was. He created her power, then he walked away from it. Now Celene the black wolf roams free and the Vossblack sickness is spreading through every pack in Ironmere. The people who sentenced Nyla to death are on their knees begging her to save them. She is not in a hurry.