For six years, Elara has lived beside the man she never wanted to love. After her parents were murdered, she was forced into a marriage with Alpha Kael, told that rogues were responsible and that joining the powerful Nightfang Pack would keep her safe. She never believed it. So she became his Luna, smiled when expected, stayed quiet when people looked down on her, and secretly searched the Nightfang archives for the truth. Kael, meanwhile, loved her without knowing that the woman beside him had been planning to leave him all along.When Elara finally finds a clue that could reveal who killed her parents, she makes one last decision. She rejects Kael and expects the bond between them to finally break. Instead, a golden mark appears across their bodies, their wounds become shared, and every attempt to separate brings unbearable pain. Their fated bond was never what they thought it was. It is an ancient curse, tied to a forgotten creature called the Umbra Wolf and the curse is beginning to awaken.Now Elara is closer to the truth than she has ever been, only to discover that her parents' deaths, her marriage to Kael, and the curse binding them are all connected. Someone inside the Nightfang Pack has been trying to break the ancient seal for generations, and they are finally close to succeeding. Elara spent six years trying to uncover who killed her parents.