Isha, a young orphan from the South, marries Edwin Sterling, the Alpha of a wolf pack. Yet during their first hundred days of marriage, Edwin remained cold and distant. Whenever she went into Heat, he locked her away alone in a seaside villa, leaving her to suffer through her heat on sedatives. Only then did Isha discover the truth: Edwin is not impotent. Instead, he has been pouring all his time and effort into helping his cousin, Lily, who is suffering from a lingering love poison — Edwin is trying to cure her. On their wedding day, the family crest that was sealed away bore a shocking inscription: Lily’s name. And the soul mark Isha had surrendered to her husband for safekeeping was never kept safe; Edwin had instead transferred it to Lily. When Isha demands her soul mark back, she is mocked and humiliated. Worse still, she is forced to swallow a love poison (a legendary Eastern insect-based curse used to control one’s emotions), and then thrown on the Estate’s rear mountain to die. On the brink of death,
