"I, Alpha Killian of the Obsidian Pack, reject you, Elara Vance, as my mate and my tether. You are a weak Omega, a stain on my lineage, and I will not let your bloodline rot my pack from the inside out." For Elara Vance, the day she turned twenty-one was supposed to be the beginning of her fairy tale. Instead, it became a living nightmare. In front of the entire pack at the Luna Ball, her fated mate—the man she had loved from afar for years—tore their bond to shreds. Cast out and broken, Elara feels the "The Fading" beginning to take hold—a slow, agonizing death of her wolf that turns her shocking white hair into a mark of shame. But as she collapses in the frozen neutral zone, she isn't met by death. She is found by Kaelen, a mysterious rogue with secrets carved into his skin and a power that could change everything. While Elara discovers that her "weak" wolf is actually a rare Ancient lineage capable of wielding the Silver Grimoire, Alpha Killian’s world is crumbling. Without his true mate, his pack is falling into madness, the "Feral Hum" is stealing his sanity, and the very land is withering under his feet. Now, the Alpha who cast her aside is hunting her down, desperate to reclaim the woman he called a "stain". But Elara is no longer the submissive Omega he rejected. She is a Queen of an ancient era, and if Killian wants a second chance, he will have to do the one thing he swore he'd never do: Kneel.