When timid village healer Elara is forced into a political marriage with Caelum, the brooding alpha of the northern werewolf clans, she’s thrust into a world of ancient rivalries, dangerous secrets, and beasts that walk in human skin. Haunted by the memory of her family’s death during a wolf raid of a rival southern wolf clan.Elara enters the union with fear in her heart—but Caelum is not the ruthless monster she expected. Burdened by a dark curse that threatens to strip him of his humanity under the looming Blood Moon, Caelum keeps Elara at arm’s length, afraid his inner beast will destroy the fragile trust growing between them. Torn between fear and desire, Elara must decide if she can love the wolf as much as the man before the blood moon rises and Caelum is lost to the darkness forever.