On her twentieth birthday, Mara Voss, the pack's Omega, finally finds her mate. He is the heir to Silverpine, and he looks at her with horror.Before the entire pack, Dorian Blackthorne rejects her. His mother, the Luna, makes sure the humiliation is complete. Mara has no wolf to speak of, no rank, and nowhere to go. But the Moon Goddess does not make mistakes, and the rejection breaks something open. Mara is not defective. She is Moonlit, the last of a bloodline the Alphas spent four hundred years hunting to extinction.Now a mysterious Alpha, a collector who hunts rare wolves, and a Hollow King who wants to devour the Goddess's power all have their eyes on her. Mara must survive betrayal, lies and war, and learn what her light was always meant to do. She will find that the choice at the end may cost her everything.She was rejected. Now she rises.

Lagos, April 2020. The city is locked down, and Ayo is bored on a rooftop, with forty-three unread messages and a reputation to match his sharp jaw. On a whim, he types four seconds' worth of nonsense to a stranger: Will you marry me?She answers: Yes, I'll marry you.What Ayo doesn't tell the girls waiting on his phone is that he belongs to a campus gang, the Blackhounds. Last November he hurt a boy from the rival Rockboys, and now the town where the woman he's fallen for lives is a place he can't walk out of alive. Nifemi and Zainab each love him in their own way. Both are about to learn how many lies one man can fit into a single lockdown.Years later, a courtroom, a prison letter, a manuscript, a disputed wedding and a house at the edge of a field will test whether a boy who started out running can become a man worth marrying