During her eighteenth birthday ball, powerless Molly is thrown from a high terrace, only to be saved by Merrick, the pack's feared Alpha, in wolf form. Their instant bond should never exist because he is the brother of the cruel man she is promised to. After Soren stages Merrick's death and tries to trap Molly in a forced union, she discovers her gift as a legendary White Wolf healer, shatters her chains, and rises to rule as Luna.