Some curses are meant to be broken. Some choices can't be unmade.Ronan is the Alpha of the Blackthorn pack — and he's dying from the inside out. A centuries-old curse is stripping his humanity away, moon by moon, and soon there will be nothing left of the man wearing his face but the wolf. He's told no one. He's stopped believing anyone can save him.Lyra doesn't want saving to be her problem. Exiled from her coven six years ago for magic too wild to control, she's built a quiet, careful life on the edge of Blackthorn territory — far from anyone who might fear her again. Until a half-feral Alpha collapses in her garden, and her magic reaches out and stops his curse cold.It shouldn't be possible. It happens anyway.As Ronan and Lyra chase the truth behind the curse, they uncover something neither expected: this isn't punishment. It's an unfinished binding, two hundred years old, waiting for the one thing that can complete it — a choice only they can make, and a price neither of them knows yet.With the pack council closing in and the clock running out on Ronan's humanity, Lyra and Ronan have to decide: keep guarding the walls they each built to survive, or let this bond become the one thing strong enough to save them both.⭐ Fated bond | Alpha x Outcast Witch | Slow burn | Forbidden pull | Curse-breaking romance

She forges masterpieces. He hides crimes inside them. Neither can trust what's real.Vienna Hale can tell a genuine Rembrandt from a perfect fake in seconds. She should be able to. She painted some of those fakes herself.Years ago, she forged paintings for a price she never stopped paying. Now billionaire Nico Vasari, the most feared man in the city, hires her to authenticate his private vault, and she realizes every canvas is a page of the mafia's ledger: a debt, a bribe, a body.Nico wants to burn it all. He can't. The ledger is the only thing keeping his family alive, and if it disappears, every enemy he has comes for him.He needs a woman who knows how to make a lie look like the truth. She needs a man who can protect her from the past she helped build.But when everything around you is a forgery, how do you know if the love is real?Every masterpiece has a price. Some debts are paid in gold. Others in blood.