Amelia Quinn is drowning. Working double shifts at a rundown hospital, she is desperately trying to pay off the massive debt her father owes to the city’s criminal underworld. But her life takes a terrifying turn when she patches up a bleeding, gorgeous stranger in a dark alleyway, asking no questions and leaving no name.​She thought it was a random act of kindness. She had no idea she had just saved Nicolai Markov—the lethal, untouchable Don of the Markov Syndicate.​Weeks later, with her debt suddenly called in and her life on the line, Amelia is forced to accept a highly lucrative, highly secretive private nursing job at a heavily guarded estate. When the doors lock behind her, she realizes the monster she is hired to care for is the man from the alley.​Nicolai doesn’t just want a nurse; he wants the angel who saved him. And in his world, what Nicolai wants, Nicolai keeps. Surrounded by ruthless enemies, an obsessively protective mafia boss, and Katerina—a deadly enforcer who will stop at nothing to eliminate her rival—Amelia must navigate a gilded cage. But the most dangerous thing in the Markov estate isn’t the guns or the betrayals. It’s the fact that Amelia is starting to fall for the devil holding the keys.

On the night of her marking ceremony, Aria Moon is publicly rejected by her fated mate, who marks another woman in front of the entire Eclipse Pack and brands her “broken and unworthy.” Weeks later, Eclipse is crushed in war. As “peace compensation,” ruthless Silvercrest Alpha Santino De Luca demands one fertile she-wolf to breed and seal the alliance. Aria’s ex-mate volunteers her—knowing she’s secretly dying from Phantom Wolf Syndrome—and signs the contract with a smile, handing her over like livestock. Dragged into enemy territory as Santino’s contracted breeder, Aria refuses to break. Her calm, razor-sharp defiance intrigues the ice-cold Alpha just enough to keep him watching. But when a flare-up forces her into the moonlit forest and she collapses in bone-shattering agony, Santino finds her. One look at her hidden curse—the exact phantom-blooded condition that will turn him into a monster on his 30th birthday—and his obsession ignites. He will protect her, possess her, and risk everything to claim her. Even if the marking bite that saves them both might kill her. Dark, addictive rejected-mate werewolf romance with forced breeder contract, he-falls-first obsession, jealous rival sabotage, ex-mate regret, and a heartbreaking marking dilemma