She was never supposed to cross the boundary stones.She was never supposed to touch the wolf.And he was never, under any law older than memory, supposed to let her.Amara Osei came back to her grandmother's village in Ghana to finish her research — folklore, mythology, stories she studied but never believed. Then the blood moon rose, a silver wolf appeared at the edge of the forbidden forest, and everything she'd spent years not believing came for her at once.His name is Kofi Asante. Alpha. Shapeshifter. Bound by laws that existed before the first kingdom rose in West Africa. His people walk between the spirit realm and the mortal world — and they have one unbreakable rule: a bond with a human destroys both worlds.Amara is human. She is forbidden. She is, without mercy or mistake, his fated mate.What begins as a warning becomes something neither of them can outrun. But the spirit realm is already cracking. Dark things are slipping through. And the pack Elders believe Amara is the cause — and want her gone. Permanently.Kofi will burn both worlds down before he lets them touch her.Some laws exist to protect. Some exist to cage. And some — the oldest ones — exist because someone once loved too deeply and broke everything.