Aria’s life is a constant battle for survival in the 19th-century Silverfang Pack. As a healer-in-training, she spends her days tending to others, only to return to a father who has gambled away their last scrap of dignity. But when her father uses her as collateral for his mounting debts, Aria is sold into the dark world of the slave camps. Her fate seems sealed until she is purchased by the most feared man in the realm: Alpha Luthor Darkmoon of the Hellbound Pack. Luthor is a man haunted by the ghost of his late wife and a bloodline curse that threatens to consume his sanity. To keep his title and satisfy the pack Elders, he needs an heir, but he refuses to let another woman take the place of his lost Luna. He offers Aria a cold, calculated deal: pose as his wife for one year and pretend to be pregnant while a secret surrogate carries his child. In exchange, she will receive her freedom and enough gold to start a new life. Aria accepts the contract to escape a worse fate, but she soon discovers that the “Cursed Alpha” is hiding more than just a cold heart. As she bonds with Luthor’s neglected daughter, Ella, and uncovers the truth behind the Alpha’s manipulation, the lines between their fake marriage and their undeniable mate bond begin to blur. But in a pack built on shadows and secrets, love might be the most dangerous curse of all especially when a second chance at happiness comes with a price paid in blood.