PrologueWhen I was seven, my biological parents drove all the way from New York in a black SUV to take me back from the countryside. Apparently, I was the long-lost bloodline of the Lawrence family, and my twin sister was lying in the ICU, waiting for my bone marrow. I didn't cry. I didn't throw a fit. I simply walked into her hospital room and pulled out her breathing tube. My father slapped me across the face and ordered the bodyguards to lock me in the attic so I could think about what I'd done. That night, I pried open the window and was just about to trigger the fire alarm system for the entire estate when I was slammed against the wall. That's when I heard my mother say, Send her to Viper's Hollow. Even the FBI won't set foot in that place. Blindfolded, I was dumped beside a filthy ditch and thrown into a crumbling shack. The moment they ripped the hood off my head, I froze. This wasn't Viper's Hollow. This was the shadow army buried beneath New York by the Kovalenko Empire. And my father... He was the man who had wiped out their entire family with his own hands twenty years ago. They thought they were being handed a helpless little lamb. What they didn't know... Was that I had already lived here for twenty years. And now— it was time to collect the interest.

In one stupid hunting challenge, my boyfriend, Alpha Kael, lost me to his twin brother. I pretended I didn't know a thing. And then I spent the entire night fucking his brother,the all-powerful Lycan King,out of his goddamn mind. The next morning, cheeks flushed pink, I went to Alpha Kael and asked him to fetch me some healing salve from the Pack doctor. "What's wrong with you?" His handsome face was twisted with irritation, his voice cold as ice. I murmured, my voice barely louder than a sigh. "My dear Alpha Kael, you were an absolute beast last night. You actually hurt me." That smug, self-satisfied expression on Alpha Kael's face froze in place. I stepped forward, pressing my body flush against his, and dropped my voice into the sweetest, sugariest little whine I could manage. "But oh, my Moon Goddess, you were nothing like you've ever been before. And I fucking loved every second of it…"