For eighteen years, Princess Sarayah Blackthorne has lived behind veils, walls, and sacred rules—protected, pampered, and kept ignorant of the world’s darkness. Her face-reveal ceremony is meant to mark the start of her freedom, her introduction to the kingdom, and her first step into a life she has always dreamed of.But everything shatters before she even steps into the light.On the night of her celebration, tragedy strikes. The palace is breached, guards fall like shadows, and a cold magic sweeps through the hall. Her father died in the midst. At its center stands Sorren Nightfell, the ruthless, feared Werewolf King—known as the tyrant of the Grimmoon Crownlands. He claims Sarayah for reasons no one can understand, tearing her from her family and the only life she has ever known.Sarayah’s world turns from innocent white to a brutal, consuming black.Thrown into a kingdom ruled by beasts, bound to a king believed incapable of mercy, Sarayah faces a new reality—one where power is blood, secrets are deadly, and fate is far more cruel than she ever imagined.But beneath Sorren’s monstrous reputation lies a past drenched in betrayal… and a prophecy that places Sarayah at the center of a war between moon and magic.And the closer she gets to the tyrant king, the more she realizes:He may be her captor…but he might also be the only one who can save her.