She loved him for two years. Trusted him with the parts of herself she never showed anyone else. Stood beside him at what was supposed to be the most important day of her life. And watched him reject her in front of everyone. That was just the beginning. The same night her father called her into his study and sold her. Her sister held the blade. Her brother held her arms. She signed her name beside a stranger's at knifepoint and called it a death sentence. The stranger was Charlie. Son of Alpha Trey of the Midnight River Pack. He arrived calm. Almost kind. Gave her a room with a lock on the inside. Walked with her before she trusted him. Pulled a man off her throat without being asked. Said you are mine to protect like it was never a question. But behind everything Charlie does is a secret older than the contract that brought them together. Her bloodline carries something three powerful men documented before she was born and have been trying to contain ever since. Someone paid the man she loved to spend two years inside her life. Someone got into a locked room and left a photograph on her pillow in the dark. Someone told Charlie to walk away from her. He typed back two words. Try me. Now everything Liana thought she understood about her life is about to be rewritten by a document hidden behind her dead mother's painting. And the people who built this trap around her are about to find out what happens when the thing they were trying to contain decides to stop.