He killed my father. He tore my pack apart. And now… the Moon Goddess says he’s my mate. Alpha Caine Ashford—cruel, unstoppable, untouchable. The world calls him the Blood Alpha. I call him my curse. Every brush of his hand makes my wolf kneel. Every glance from him makes my heart betray me. Every instinct screams to fight him… and every part of me wants to surrender. When the Blood Moon rises again, fate will decide: Do I destroy the monster who stole everything from me… Or love him enough to set the world on fire?

Tragedy struck the night Edward James held his dying wife’s hand. Her voice was barely a whisper as she made him promise one last thing: “Take care of her, Eddie. Please… protect our daughter.” He kept that promise. For seven years, Isabella was his entire world. He packed her lunches, paid her school fees, stayed up through her nightmares, and carried his own pain silently. She was fourteen when he made that promise. Now she’s twenty-one—grown, graceful, and with a laugh that shakes the walls of the house they once shared in silence. When she comes home from university, everything feels the same… and yet nothing is. Her laughter lingers longer. Her touch stays a beat too long when she brushes against his arm. The girl he once tucked into bed is now a woman whose presence makes his chest ache in ways he can’t explain—or shouldn’t. Living under one roof again turns the ordinary into something dangerous. The air between them hums with things neither dares to name. Then one night, they find a box of old letters—Isabella’s mother’s handwriting, filled with secrets Edward had tried to bury. The truths inside shatter everything he thought he was protecting. And when silence falls, when guilt and longing blur together, one touch changes everything. Now Edward faces the hardest question of his life: How do you protect someone from the one person you’ve become a danger to?