When paranormal mate bonds begin dying across the shifter world, everything the supernatural community believes in crumbles. Fated mates no longer recognize each other. The connection that's supposed to define wolf packs for life is breaking. And no one knows why.Kael, the ruthless alpha king of the Northern territories, leads the faction trying to hide the crisis. He believes suppressing the truth will save their species from chaos. But his own mate bond died five years ago—a public rejection that left him broken, isolated, and convinced he's cursed.Then Isla crashes into his life.She's a rogue wolf with no pack, no claim, no future—exactly what paranormal society considers disposable. She's also being hunted by a shadowy organization that wants to study her for reasons she doesn't understand. When she literally falls into Kael's territory, he realizes she possesses something rare: the ability to sense broken bonds, to feel the fractures in other wolves' souls.She's the key to everything.Kael's solution is simple: capture her, use her, fix the crisis, and restore order. Isla's solution is even simpler: escape before she gets tangled in paranormal politics she never asked for.But neither of them can deny the connection that ignites between them—a spark that has nothing to do with destiny and everything to do with choice. As they work together to uncover who's systematically destroying mate bonds, they discover a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of paranormal power. The hunters after Isla are just pawns. Someone wants to destabilize their entire world.And they're running out of time.In a paranormal society obsessed with fate and predetermined bonds, Isla and Kael will have to choose each other—not because destiny demands it, but because they decide to. In doing so, they might just save their world. Or burn it down trying.A paranormal romance about power, choice, vulnerability, and the bonds we forge ourselves.

Aria thought she had returned to Mooncrest for answers. She never expected to discover that she was the key to a secret powerful enough to destroy the supernatural world.Seven years after her mother's disappearance and her father's mysterious death, Aria returns to the place her family once called home. But Mooncrest remembers her—and so does Kael, the Alpha who was forced to reject her before either of them understood why.Beneath the mountain lies an ancient Gate, seven broken seals, and a secret the Guardians sacrificed everything to bury. As Aria's dormant power awakens, she discovers that her parents' deaths were not accidents, her mother's disappearance was not what she believed, and Kael's rejection may have been part of a plan designed long before she was born.Now the Gate is opening.Someone has been waiting behind it.And Aria must discover the truth about her bloodline before the choice she makes determines whether the Gate remains closed—or unleashes something that was never supposed to escape.