Sable Kestrel has spent her whole life paying for a mistake she made at six years old, the mistake that got her parents killed and left her raised by an aunt who never let her forget it. Weak. Cursed. Disposable. That's all anyone in the Ironclaw Pack ever saw when they looked at her.Until the Mating Ceremony, when the bond slams into place between her and Alpha Alaric Thorne in front of the entire pack.He doesn't reject her the normal way. He erases her,branding her collarbone with the ancient Words of Unbinding, a ritual so rare most wolves have never seen it used. The bond isn't refused. It's destroyed. Disowned by her aunt and hunted through the forest by rogues wearing someone's mark, Sable barely survives the night, saved by a pack of outcasts who see something in her that Ironclaw never did.Something is waking up inside her. Something the Words were supposed to make sure never had the chance.Alaric thought he buried the weakest wolf in his territory.He has no idea what's coming back for him.

Odessa Ravencourt has spent four years at Duskmere making herself small, the last of a bloodline the Vale executed her parents for. Then a border attack reignites the old war, and the coven hands her over as this semester's treaty hostage, straight into Ironhollow territory. Straight into Ronan Kade's house. He hates everything she is. She hates that she doesn't hate him back. As the truce cracks and someone with real power moves against them both, Odessa starts uncovering the truth about her parents' "treason" and what she is might be the one thing strong enough to burn the treaty, and everyone in it, to the ground.