Single mother Ava Bennett flees her abusive ex-husband with her eight-month-old son Leo, stumbling into the underground lair of Dominic Vale—New York's most feared monster. But instead of attacking, the beast clumsily comforts the crying infant, proving gentler than any human Ava has known. Dominic can shift between human and beast forms, hunted by the shadowy Atlas Division that engineered him as a weapon. Forced into a fake marriage for protection, Ava discovers the "monster" is a prisoner of his own body—afraid he'll hurt the family he's grown to love. As her violent ex closes in and Atlas hunts them through the city's underground, Ava must expose the corporation's cruel experiments and choose between hiding Dominic's secret or openly declaring that the man she loves is not a weapon, not a monster—but the father her son deserves, and the family she's always longed for.
