BLURB Briar Sinclair has spent her whole life being called wolfless, a girl whose wolf never woke, whose scent never truly matched a wolf's, whose place in her own family always felt borrowed rather than owned. On the night she is meant to be claimed by her fiance Callum, she watches him discover his fated mate is her own half sister Ines, right there in front of her, right on the floor of the room she thought would hold her happiest memory.Heartbroken and humiliated, Briar runs into the forest that borders her pack's land, straight into a stranger whose scent hits her like a lightning strike. She does not know his face. She does not know his name. She only knows that for one night, under a blood tinted moon, her body answers a call she has never felt before, and by morning she carries a mark she was never supposed to be able to receive.Her father gives her an ultimatum: find a husband willing to accept a marked, wolfless daughter before the next full moon, or be removed from the family permanently. The timing could not be crueler. The infamous Alpha Rhydian Blackthorn, a man whispered about in every pack for the packs he has erased and the enemies he has buried, is holding a mating ball to choose a bride of convenience while he hunts, in secret and with mounting desperation, for the marked mate who vanished from his arms before dawn.When Briar is dragged to that ball by a family eager to be rid of her, she has no idea that the cold, dangerous Alpha standing at the front of the room already carries her mark beneath his own skin. But she is not the only one with secrets. Her stepmother is hiding what really happened to Briar's real mother. Her half sister is not simply cruel, she is working for someone far more dangerous. And the suppressed, dormant wolf inside Briar is not broken. It was silenced on purpose, by someone who always knew exactly what Briar was, and exactly how much power she could one day take from them.As alliances shift, assassins circle, and a rival Alpha maneuvers to use Briar's buried bloodline as a weapon against the throne Rhydian has bled to protect, Briar will have to decide how much of herself she is willing to reclaim, even if the truth costs her the only family she has ever known.