In a world where wolf packs rise like empires, Hope Alden was born marked by the Moon—a wolf who cannot fully shift, whispered to be broken. But her true difference runs deeper. She can see and speak to the dead, a gift the living call a curse. Rejected by her fated mate, Crown Prince Damon of Lunar Dome, Hope is cast aside when he chooses her twin, Dawn, instead. Damon fears the cursed wolf at his side might cost him the throne—especially with three ambitious brothers already sharpening their claws waiting for his downfall. Hope believes her story ends that night… until she pulls a dying stranger from the river. He calls himself Kian. Scarred. Hunted. Dangerous. He was once a Delta—until betrayal by the woman he believed was his destined mate left him broken in ways no blade could. Since then, he has trusted no woman, no vow, and certainly no prophecy. Kian does not believe in fate. His wolf is as wary as it is lethal, and the walls around him are made of pure iron. But from the moment Hope saved him, something pulled them together, something unwanted and undeniable. Kian felt it first, the quiet burn beneath his scars, the part of him that softened only when she was near. Hope felt it too, a dangerous warmth she had no business wanting. Two souls betrayed by fate, both trying to stay away… yet somehow, they kept finding each other. Because the fire between them had already chosen—long before they were ready to. But the man Hope saves is no ordinary survivor. Kian is Alexander—the lost son of the king, the true heir to the wolf throne, believed to have drowned as a child, the Moon Goddess’s true chosen. When divine fire rejects Damon and crowns Kian instead, war erupts across the nine werewolf kingdoms. Hope is torn between the throne she once served and the man fate bound her to save—a man who looks at her with distrust, as if kindness itself might be a trap, and at the same time like there was no air away from her. Yet in the chaos, Hope's spectral gift begins to reveal what the spirits always knew. Her curse was never meant to break her. It was meant to awaken something far greater. With Hope by his side, Kian rises from hunted to rightful king, uniting a kingdom on the brink of ruin. But whispers stir in the court—dangerous ones. Rumors that Hope is not just his savior, but the mind behind his victories. The only heartbeat his hardened wolf listens to. Jealousy festers. Betrayal brews. And Damon realizes too late that the mate he rejected was the goddess’s chosen weapon all along—the one woman who could have secured him the crown he so desperately wanted. But Hope Alden will never bow to the man who shattered her soul. Not even if he stands alone in all the world. Now, as prophecy divides the realm and two sisters walk opposite paths—one fueled by envy, the other by fate—the truth will blaze brighter than the moon itself. The goddess never made a mistake. She forged a weapon. And her name was Hope Alden.