Elora has spent nineteen years being treated as the weakest wolf in her pack. With no obvious abilities and an unusual copper-colored wolf, she is considered useless despite being the Beta’s daughter. When her powerful cousin Amora is chosen for the Royal Selection, Elora finally leaves her pack, believing there is no place for her there. In the forest, she encounters a mysterious man who saves her from a Veyra. Unaware that he is Kael, the Alpha King, she openly criticizes the Royal Selection to his face. Before dawn, Elora is shocked when a royal decree arrives ordering her to attend the Selection personally by the Alpha King’s command. At the palace, Elora finds herself surrounded by powerful female wolves who were chosen because of their abilities, while she remains the girl nobody understands. Her unexpected connection with the Alpha King grows, especially after she discovers that the mysterious man from the forest is Kael. But the Royal Selection has a secret purpose. For a thousand years, the Alpha King’s bloodline has suffered from an ancient witch’s curse. Every King eventually perishes and turns to stone, and Kael’s time is running out. The only hope of breaking the curse is to find the wolf blessed by the Moon Goddess. As Elora’s strange dreams and unexplained nature begin revealing themselves, the truth finally emerges: Elora is the Moon Goddess’s blessed one. But finding her is only the beginning. The royal family discovers that the blessing comes with a terrible condition;the blessed wolf must be sacrificed to break the curse and save the Alpha King’s bloodline. Now Kael faces an impossible choice: save his kingdom and his bloodline by sacrificing his mate, or destroy a thousand year old legacy to save the woman he loves and sacrifice himself to death.