Éline as never meant to survive. Cursed with powers no one understands and bound by suppressants since she was a child, she’s spent her entire life trapped—unwanted in a pack that whispers behind her back. Marked as strange, she’s been labeled the outcast, the weirdo, the girl with strange eyes and no wolf. And then the world burns. When a ruthless, untraceable rival pack lays waste to her home, Éline is taken—stripped of her identity, her dignity, and her last thread of hope. Forced to serve as a maid in a foreign, secretive pack no one has ever seen and few believe exists, she plans only one thing: escape. Until she sees him. Kiernan is cold. Sharp. Unreachable.The same stranger whose gaze once unsettled her in the shadows of her old life. The Alpha of the rival pack. And her fated mate. But Kiernan doesn’t believe in fate. Hardened by a lifetime of war and his father’s legacy of cruelty, he has buried every part of himself that longs for softness—until Éline arrives and shatters every wall he’s built. She’s everything he shouldn’t want. Everything that could destroy him. And the only thing he can’t stay away from.When the mate bond clicks Éline does the unthinkable. She rejects him. Éline doesn’t want a mate. Kiernan doesn’t want to feel. But fate doesn’t care what they want. And love, when forged in darkness, is a dangerous thing.