Ava is treated like an unpaid servant by her own family because she cannot shift into a wolf, bearing endless mockery in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest. When the declining Reed clan faces crushing debts, her cruel mother forces Ava to substitute for her spoiled younger sister in an arranged wedding to ruthless Alpha Damon.
Expecting cruelty inside the Blackwood pack lodge, Ava instead earns the genuine warmth of Damon's mother and steadily chips away at Damon's icy armor through quiet courage. When her hidden Moon-Blessed blood revitalizes the dying pack and her greedy family crawls back to claim her, Ava firmly banishes them forever.
