Omega healer Emily Carter was sold into marriage at seventeen to Alpha Nathan Hale, heir of a dying pack. When she failed to produce an heir after three winters, his family branded her cursed — and Nathan, desperate to save face before the Alpha Council, staged her death and sold her to smugglers instead. They meant to deliver her to the black market auctions beyond the Veil Mountains.



The convoy never arrives. It’s ambushed at the border of a cursed wood — territory belonging to Alpha King Wade Sullivan, a former war-hero cast out by his own bloodline and left to rot in exile, his body wracked by an old curse that turns him into something less than a man every time the Hunter’s Moon rises.



He finds Emily half-frozen in the wreckage, her omega scent cutting through the fog of the curse like nothing has in a decade. What should have ended in blood becomes something else entirely: recognition. A bond neither of them asked for, forged in moonlight and desperation — and the first thing in years that feels like it might actually be his.



Now Emily has to decide whether to run from a monster the world warned her about, or stay and find out he might be the only one who’s never lied to her.



Forced love, romance, revenge,betrayal