Alice Morwen, a wise and sharp-minded delegate police officer, has always stood firm in her belief: protect the innocent, uphold the law, and trust logic above all else. But in the quiet, forest-wrapped town of Graven Vale, West Virginia, that logic begins to unravel. The town has recently seen a rise in strange occurrences—locals vanishing without a trace, eerie howls echoing from the woods, and bloodstains laced with DNA that defies classification. During a late-night patrol along the forest's edge, Alice encounters four boys, claiming to be orphans who fled from another state. Assigned to investigate their backgrounds and provide them shelter, she begins to protect them—emotionally and physically—as a deep bond forms between them. But these boys are not what they seem. They are young wolves of the Crescentborne Pack, a noble bloodline of shifters long thought extinct—exiled, hunted, and hidden in legend. As Alice grows closer to them, she begins to uncover a truth buried in her own bloodline—a family secret that binds her fate to theirs. Everything shifts when she finally meets Hendron, the formidable Alpha of the Crescentborne Pack—a man covered in power, haunted by legacy, and hardened by the burdens passed down by his father. His arrival forces Alice to confront everything she thought she knew—about monsters, about duty, and about herself. Is Alice destined to be more than just a protector to the pack—perhaps even to Hendron himself?