Six years ago, Seraphina Ashford stood in the rain waiting for the train that would take the boy of her dreams away from her. Zane Whitlock, the son of her family's bitterest enemy, never showed. Now she is twenty-four, and daughter of the most feared man on the east side, and her father has just sold her into an engagement to another family's heir. Then Zane comes back into her life. He is not the smiling boy she fell in love with, but a cold and deadly man who believes she was responsible for his father's murder, and comes to reap what she has sown. He wants everything that belongs to the Ashford family, beginning with her. But someone wanted old Whitlock dead. And someone was willing to let Seraphina take the fall for it. As secrets are uncovered and loyalties are tested, she must choose between the brother who always protected her, the father who sold her, or the man who swore to destroy her. Because in a world ruled by blood and violence, the lines between love and revenge are often crossed. Second chance. Revenge. Betrayal. Forbidden love.

Half a Moon, Whole Betrayal is a werewolf paranormal romance with mystery and thriller elements. It's planned about 200,100 words, told in first-person past tense from Serah's point of view. Premise: Serah Wilder is a runaway werewolf who has spent two years hiding in a human town under a false name. On her eighteenth birthday her wolf wakes, and the Thorn pack tracks her down. Among them is Rowland, her forbidden first love, the heir of the pack her family has fought for a hundred years. He is also the boy she blames for her father's death. Captured and taken to the Thorn stronghold, she learns her father is still alive, that her relatives were held and killed there, and that her half-moon necklace and Rowland's form the Moon Key, which opens an ancient gate in the mountain. Only a Wilder and a Thorn who are fated mates can open it. Main characters: Serah Wilder: the heroine, guarded and stubborn, and the last free Wilder. Rowland Thorn: the heir, torn between loyalty to his father and his mate. He carries a betrayal he can't hide. Alpha Damon Thorn: the villain, who spent twenty years hunting the Moon Key. Marcus Wilder: Serah's father, held prisoner, and the only one who knows how to finish opening the gate. Lila Thorn: Rowland's mother, secretly imprisoned for ten years, who reveals that the gate is a seal. Garrick: Damon's scarred head hunter. Nyra: Serah's wolf and inner voice. Themes: trust and betrayal, love across enemy lines, inherited guilt, and who the real victims and villains of an old war are.