Growing up, Ava Blackwood knew nothing but rejection. As the wolf-less illegitimate daughter of Alpha Damien, she was treated as an embarrassment by the family she desperately wanted to belong to. When the feared Blood-Fang Tribe arrives to collect an old debt left behind by their late Alpha, Ava is demanded as payment and handed over without hesitation. Certain she has been discarded because she is worthless, she prepares herself for another life of cruelty beneath the ruthless Alpha Alaric Draven. Instead, Ava finds herself surrounded by a tribe that is not as monstrous as the stories claimed, a cold Alpha whose actions rarely match his reputation, and a growing web of secrets tied to her late mother’s past. As mysterious changes awaken within her, her crescent moon tattoo begins reacting to forces she cannot explain, an old journal reveals fragments of a buried truth, and whispers from a forgotten past refuse to stay silent. But some pasts were meant to be hidden for a reason, can Ava survive the power of the dark past hidden within her? Or will she crumble?