Sera Voss was wolf-less, worthless, and disposable — or so her Alpha believed when he wrapped her in white and threw her through the iron gates of Ashveil Castle as a blood sacrifice to the cursed Lycan King. She expected to die before morning. She didn't expect Cael Dravon. Cold, ancient, and terrifyingly powerful, the Lycan King has spent three centuries alone — cursed by the Moon Goddess, feared by every pack in the realm, and untouchable by design. He should have drained her blood and moved on. Instead, he kept her. Now Sera is living inside the most dangerous castle in the world, training with a Beta who doesn't trust her, befriended by a servant who warns her daily to guard her heart, and slowly, devastatingly drawn to a king who looks at her like she's the first thing in three hundred years worth wanting. But something darker is coming. A rival Alpha is hunting her. Ancient texts whisper her name. And the secret hidden inside her — the wolf she was never supposed to have — is about to change everything. She came to Ashveil Castle to be sacrificed. She stayed to become something far more dangerous.