One night in the woods. One wolf that should have killed not have been there,. One bite that should have killed her. It didn't. Laikyn Sullivan has no memory of the seven days she lost. No scars. No explanation. Only the growing feeling that something inside her is waking up, and that unsettling pull she cannot shake toward Dylan Salvatore; the brooding, untouchable captain of Grimhowl Academy's football team. Dylan has his own problems. He woke up with blood on his lips and no memory of the full moon. And now, he cannot stay away from the raven-haired girl with violet eyes who smells like something his wolf already knows. They were never supposed to meet. Never supposed to feel this. But someone has been watching them. And whatever that bite unlocked in Laikyn, powerful people will burn the world to put it down. What if the monster that found her in the dark is the only thing standing between her and the ones who sent it?

They think I'm just the secretary. They have no idea I'm the reckoning. Twenty-three years ago, the Holtons destroyed my family and walked away clean; and Clara, the girl I once called my best friend, handed them the knife. I've spent every year since becoming someone she wouldn't recognize, someone Alexander Holton would never suspect, just to get close enough to make her pay. The plan was simple: marry myself to his trust, dismantle everything he loves, and walk away with Clara's whole world in ashes. Alexander was never supposed to matter. He was just the door I had to walk through to get to her. Except doors aren't supposed to look at you like that. They aren't supposed to make you forget what you walked through them for. Now I'm standing closer to him than I ever planned to, further from the girl who ruined me than I've been in years, and I don't know anymore which one of us is going to end up in ruins when this is over.

Mixed with the blood of two sworn enemies, Astrid was born a half-wolf and half-vampire, with both types of blood remaining dormant. She had spent her life as an outcast, despised by her kind. But destiny had drawn her into the halls of Yormsborg, where a world of secrets and betrayal was unveiled before her. Fated to the Alpha King, her presence ignites chaos. Brooding war and conspiracies, she and Sebastian must stand together and fight the treachery within and from enemies beyond. But when the chaos and the bloodline are revealed, Astrid must embrace the blood in her before everything she loves is lost. Will she be able to overcome her adversity? And will love to defy fate?