You’re the only thing holding the monster inside me back. Samuel Voss is Hollowbrook High’s cold, untouchable football captain—an Alpha werewolf cursed with an uncontrollable inner beast. No one can calm his raging wolf. No one can quiet the darkness burning inside him. Until Gwyneth Hale. Quiet, ordinary, and completely human, the lonely eleventh-grader survives on her own, with nothing but a worn silver pendant left by her grandmother. She never believed in fate… until a foggy night bike crash bound her soul to the most dangerous Alpha in town. She is his fated mate. His only one. Irreplaceable. Forever. Samuel fights the bond with every breath. He pushes her away, avoids her, and refuses to taint her gentle world with his cursed chaos. Yet one touch from her is enough to soothe his monster completely. Why her? Why only her? But she is not only drawing the Alpha wolf’s obsession. There is another boy watching her closely. Her soft-spoken, gentle desk-mate lingers by her side every single day. Kind, attentive, and impossibly patient, he always appears when she feels alone. Yet a cold, hidden darkness lurks beneath his calm smile. He is from an ancient supernatural bloodline—born to be the wolf’s eternal enemy. Every warm glance he gives her stirs the Alpha’s possessive jealousy into a wild, uncontrollable storm. Two mysterious boys. Two deadly rival lineages. One ordinary girl they both crave. Is she the salvation that can save the cursed Alpha? Or will the hidden enemy beside her steal her fated future away?