Six years ago, Elise fled the wedding arranged by her father and spent a passionate night with a mysterious stranger in a valley beneath the Blood Moon. By morning, he had vanished, and she could no longer even remember his face.
Six years later, Elise lives in a rented apartment with her daughter, working three jobs just to make ends meet. When the school's new security guard saves her daughter from danger, the little girl looks up at him and suddenly calls him "Daddy."
Desperate to escape another forced marriage arranged by her father, Elise impulsively marries the seemingly penniless security guard. But she has no idea that her new husband is actually the Alpha of a powerful wolf pack.
Even worse, she doesn't know that he carries a secret execution order from the Council of Elders—commanding him to kill her half-blood daughter.
And the date on that deadly order? Just two days before their marriage certificate was signed.
