The mission was simple. Weaken the Alpha. Walk away. Don't ask questions. Sage Ashford has built her survival on following those three rules. She's the Council's best Executioner - invisible, untraceable, and ruthlessly effective. She has never left a mission unfinished. She has also never met Heath Blackwood. He's already three steps ahead of her. His pack is nothing like her briefing described. And the conspiracy she was sent to serve runs deeper and darker than anything she was told - reaching into the bones of the supernatural world itself, all the way back to something ancient, something buried, something that has been waiting for a woman just like her. The wolf she was sent to break is the only one telling her the truth. They sent her to hunt him. Nobody warned either of them about what came next.