The law is absolute. But some rules are written in bone—and enforced in blood. For twenty-two years, Natalie Sterling’s life was a sanctuary of concrete and glass. To her mother, the city was the only safety—a shield against a "sensitive constitution" and the agonizing migraines that arrived with every full moon. Natalie grew up believing in the logic of her law school textbooks and the bitter, unmarked pills that kept her world quiet. But then her mother passes away, the pills run out, and the silence begins to scream. Now an intern at the formidable Blackwood Industries, Natalie finds her reality fracturing. Her senses are sharpening to a lethal edge. She can hear heartbeats through reinforced glass. She can smell the scent of ancient forests and rain clinging to the firm’s enigmatic CEO, Lucien Blackwood. Lucien is a man of shadow and steel, the heir to a legacy that doesn't just run the city—it haunts it. From the moment their eyes meet, the pull between them is more than attraction; it is a primal collision that threatens to expose the very secrets Natalie’s mother died to protect. In a world of corporate suits and silver-tipped secrets, Natalie must survive the rising moon and a fated connection she can’t escape. Because in the Blackwood empire, some bloodlines are born to rule—and others are born to be extinguished. The moon is rising. And the truth has teeth.