On her eighteenth birthday, Evangeline expected a pack celebration and the embrace of her fated mate, Alpha Logan. Instead, she received a public nightmare. Caught in the arms of her treacherous stepsister, Chloe, Logan ruthlessly shatters their fated bond, strips Evangeline of her rank, and banishes her into the freezing expanse of the Forbidden Forest to die. Freezing, broken-hearted, and bleeding, Evangeline prepares for death. But her blood awakens something ancient in the frozen soil, drawing the attention of King Alistair, the cold, merciless Lycan Monarch who rules the realm with an iron fist and loathes ordinary wolves. When Alistair finds the dying omega, he raises his blade to end her. But the moment his skin touches hers, the universe shifts. A blinding gold light erupts, sealing them in the Imperial Bond, a rare, primal mate connection that overrules all previous rejections. Now, the girl who was left to die in the snow is carried into the obsidian castle as the chosen Queen. As Evangeline's rare, dormant powers begin to awaken, Logan realizes he threw away the most powerful wolf in history. He wants her back. But the Lycan King does not share his toys, and he will burn the entire werewolf kingdom to the ground to keep her.