Arina De Luca was born into privilege as the daughter of Shadowborne’s Alpha—until the night her world collapsed. Overnight, the pack that once adored her turned cruel, and the girl who had been raised like royalty became a ghost in her own home. With her eighteenth birthday approaching—and something inside her growing restless—Arina makes the only choice left to her.
She runs.
Far beyond Shadowborne territory, Lycan King Xander LeBlanc has spent years refusing destiny itself. He trusts no one, takes no mate, and rules with a heart encased in iron. But his carefully guarded world fractures the moment a terrified young woman appears at his doorstep, carrying secrets she doesn’t yet understand.
Something ancient stirs between them.
Something neither of them is ready for.
As Arina tries to uncover the truth about the life she lost, Xander finds himself drawn into a mystery far darker than he imagined—a mystery tied to Shadowborne, to Arina… and to a threat powerful enough to shake kingdoms.
Whispers rise. Old wounds bleed. And the past is no longer willing to stay buried.
One girl running from the darkness.
One king determined to resist fate.
Two lives are about to collide in ways neither can escape.
But in a world built on bloodlines and lies…
Nothing is what it seems.