Selene Vale lived behind a mask of mourning since the night her Alpha was stolen from her. She is the widow, the mother, and the silent sovereign. She is perfectly disciplined but perfectly lied to. When a Blood Memory flickers to life, the frost begins to crack. The man she calls her hero is a ghost maker. The pack she calls her family is a nest of vipers. And the only wolf who sees the truth is the one she's been taught to fear: Kael Thorn, the Alpha of Blackbrier, a man who tastes like cedar and looks like a second chance she isn't allowed to have. Caught between the “loyal” advisor who destroyed her past and the “outsider” Alpha who offers a terrifyingly new future, will she remain the widow of a ghost or embrace the fire that could save her son and redefine her throne?