Elara can hear the thoughts of those who are hiding a betrayal.Elara Voss has spent her whole life unseen. An omega, the lowest rank in the Blackthorn Pack, she survives by keeping her head down and her eyes open.Then the pack's golden son, Soren Draven, is found dead beside the silver lake. And Elara is found kneeling next to him, drenched in his blood, with no memory of how she got there.The council wants her executed. Alpha Kaelen Draven, the dead man's grieving brother, has something slower in mind. One year as his prisoner. Bound to his chambers. Stripped of every right. Not out of mercy, but so he can watch her suffer.Someone else, however, doesn't want to wait a year.Wine laced with poison. A balcony that crumbles beneath her feet. A shadow wolf prowling the corridors. Each attack comes when Elara is near the Alpha, and the pack begins to whisper that she is cursed. Then, in the middle of an ambush, she cries out the attacker's name, one no one had spoken aloud.And the man who swore to break her suddenly needs her alive. A traitor walks among his pack, and she is the only one who can find them. As the two dig deeper, they find a murder scene that was staged, a memory erased by a drug, and a grave that was never filled. Hatred starts to smolder into something far more dangerous. And when Elara finally listens in on Kaelen's mind, the secret he's guarding is not treachery. What might be the secret?Yet every answer they uncover shatters another truth. The dead aren't what they seem. The people they trust have lied to their faces. Even the bond between them has been quietly poisoned. Someone has been pulling their strings from the very start, and that person is far closer than either of them dares to imagine