Lyca Moon has lived as an orphan in the Nightshade pack among the kitchen omegas who taught her that the most important moment in every wolf's life is finding their mate. And so, on her eighteenth nameday, she giddily joins other eager ladies and men to find their mates at the Moonshift ceremony. Calden Howlborne, the Alpha of the Nightshade pack has inherited the Howlborne curse which threatens to shorten his life. It can only be averted by a girl born into the Accalai family which only begets females that are blessed by the moon goddess herself. During the moonshift ceremony, Lyca is excited to meet her mate and have a family for the first time in her life. Calden is expecting for it to be revealed that Mara, the only child of the Accalai family, is his mate. When the moon shines and mates are revealed, Lyca is paired with an Alpha that doesn’t want her and rejects her in his anger in front of everyone. Lyca is subjected to so much pain physically and emotionally and leaves the pack. She returns three years later with a secret that can alter the pack’s hierarchy as punishment to the man who hurt her and rejected her before he even knew her.