‎He wears darkness, so the world can live in light.‎‎Kaelan Ashgrove was born to rule. Instead, he was cast out.‎‎The pack calls him a murderer the nephew who killed his own uncle to steal the throne. They don't know the truth. They never will, if Kaelan has anything to say about it. Better to be hated for a lie than to watch his pack tear itself apart over what really happened that night.‎‎Wren Sorrel was raised on that lie.‎‎Adopted daughter of the man Kaelan killed, she was taught to remember one thing above all else: the Alpha's disgraced heir took everything from her. Her father. Her family. Her home. She returns to Ashgrove territory with one purpose get close enough to make him pay.‎‎She never expected the mate bond.‎‎One touch, and Wren is irreversibly tied to the man she swore to destroy a bond neither of them chose and neither can escape. As she's pulled deeper into his world, the story she's spent her whole life believing starts to unravel, thread by thread, until she's forced to face a devastating truth: the man she came to kill may be the only innocent one left.‎‎But truth has a price. And somewhere in the shadows, the real architect of her father's death is still watching still waiting for Wren's own brother to finish what their father started.‎‎Revenge brought her to him. Fate bound her to him. Now she has to decide if love is worth the war that's coming.