Alpha Dominic Hale binds Lyra in a bloodthirsty mate bond for eight years, claiming he owns her body and soul. But the moment an aristocratic pack daughter arrives, Dominic casts Lyra aside as impure, stripping her rank and parading his new chosen queen before the howling pack.
Instead of begging for crumbs of affection, Lyra strikes back at the royal nuptials with a silver dagger, fleeing into the wilderness to wage asymmetric war on his territory. As she hunts Dominic's lieutenants, she uncovers chilling evidence proving her possessive mate personally orchestrated the annihilation of her ancestral pack.
