Everyone in the Ashgrove pack has a place. Elowen doesn't. She's the wolfless girl the pack tolerates, the one who eats last and speaks least, raised alongside a golden sister who was never once asked to share.So when Alpha Corwin finally calls her forward at the Choosing Moon, in front of the entire pack, Elowen lets herself believe, just once, that she might matter.He rejects her. Publicly. Cruelly. "A wolfless girl was never going to be my Luna." He claims her sister instead, and the pack that watched her hope laughs her out of the circle.What no one knows, what Elowen has hidden her whole life, even from herself, is that her hands can heal what shouldn't be healable, that her blood isn't fully wolf at all, and that the disgrace that just ended one life is about to begin another one entirely.Exiled from the only home she's known, Elowen crosses into the territory of a king who has sworn to end every vampire on the continent, and discovers, too late to run, that his wolf has just claimed her as his mate.Alpha King Cassian doesn't know what she is yet. Her rejected Alpha is coming to find out. And somewhere beneath the mountains, a vampire king who lost a daughter years ago is about to learn she's still alive.Elowen spent her whole life being told she wasn't enough. She's about to find out she's the one thing strong enough to hold three kingdoms together, if she survives choosing which one she belongs to.

For generations, the peace between humans and werewolves has been maintained by one agreement, every generation, a human family gives their firstborn daughter to the pack. It was supposed to be Julie. Instead my stepfather gave them me. The girl he adopted, mistreated, and never wanted. The girl he always said was useless. Now he has found one final use for me, sending me to die in the hands of a werewolf Alpha who doesn't want me either. Alpha Patrick made that clear from the beginning. I am just a contract. A placeholder. Nothing more. But something strange is happening. My wounds heal faster than they should. A bite mark appeared on my neck the night I was brought here and vanished before morning. And the Alpha who claims to hate me cannot stop looking at me like I am something he has been searching for without knowing it. Lydia wants me gone. The pack council wants me gone. And something inside these walls wants me dead.