She was the girl a kingdom needed dead. He was the prince sent to make sure it happened. Neither expected to fall in love along the way. On the night her father is murdered, Freya Forbes loses the only family who ever protected her, and the lie she'd been living her whole life goes down with him. Hunted by dangers she doesn't understand, she's saved by a stranger who won't give her his name. His name is Elijah Ashborne, heir to a Lycan throne hidden from the human world, and he wasn't sent to save her. He was sent to bond her to him and let her die, the final piece his father needed to break a centuries-old curse and set the Lycans free to rule over humankind. He was ordered to make her love him. He never planned on loving her back. And the longer he stays close to her, the harder it becomes to remember which one was ever the mission. Because some hearts are born to save a kingdom. Others are destined to destroy it. Find out in this gripping tale of forbidden love, ancient secrets, betrayal, and one impossible choice that could end a bloodline, or save it.