Three years after being framed by her duplicitous adopted sister, Lyla Silverthorn endures unimaginable torture: her sacred lunar core is excised, her vocal cords are burned with liquid silver, and her identity is erased beneath a slave auction serial number. Her former mate, Alpha Caleb Cross, purchases her for two hundred thousand dollars without recognizing the scarred mute woman beneath the iron collar.
The deception cracks when Lyla’s dormant Moon Crown ignites with blinding divine light, unmasking her sister's treason and restoring her royal heritage. Paralyzed by horror and sickening guilt, Caleb falls to his knees pleading for forgiveness, but Lyla snaps their sacred soul-bond chain with bare hands to claim her freedom.
